Ability Quote by Laozi

In all sensation we pick and choose, interpret, seek and impose order, and devise and test hypotheses about what we witness. Sense data are…

— Peter Medawar

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“We have six sense organs that can be in contact with the world outside, and with all the “worlds” inside. The six organs are…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

— Pliny the Elder

the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature…

— David Hume

“Schemata are our necessary instruments for making the surfaces of what we read connect significantly with the background knowledge that is wittheld from immediate…

— E. D. Hirsch, Jr

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or…

— Nikola Tesla

“When information comes in through your sense organs, it’s directed to the thalamus, which is like the Grand Central Station of the brain”

— Catherine M. Pittman

The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and…

— Francis Bacon

There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential…

— Jerome Bruner

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the…

— Steven Pinker