Awareness Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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 brain is the citadel of sense perception.

— Pliny the Elder

In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color,…

— Jacques Barzun

Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like…

— Margaret Cavendish

The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind…

— Lewis Thomas

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

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

— Anais Nin

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

— Aristotle

All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand,…

— Albert Einstein

When I write about things, it's a lot to do with sense memory. How things smell and taste can bring incredible memories flooding back…

— Sophie Dahl