Data Quote by Peter Medawar

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

— Pliny the Elder

As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is required…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“An odd thing about perception is that when we identify some new thing with one or more of our five senses, it is not…

— Nigel Hey

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

— Robert Delaunay

The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge…

— Richard Gregory

Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

— Deepak Chopra

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

— Elliott Erwitt

The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are based on…

— Laozi

Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.

— Carlos Castaneda

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

Comprehension follows perception.

— Philip K. Dick