WoK1: Sense perception quotations

• "There's more to seeing that meets the eye." (K. T. Cole)
• "There is no truth. There is only perception." (Gustave Flaubert)
• "Everyone hears only what he understands." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
• "True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception."(Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy)
• "We hear and apprehend only what we already half know." (Henry David Thoreau)
• "Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic." (Edward de Bono)
• "We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see." (Henry David Thoreau)
• "There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception." (Aldous Huxley)
• "We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message." (Cullen Hightower)
• "The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comrehend." (Henri Bergson)
• "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is -- infinite." (William Blake)
• "It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive." (C. W. Leadbeater)
• "After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings." (Richard Dawkins)
• "Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing." (Camille Pissarro)
• "Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world." (Hans Margolius)
• "Science is nothing but perception." (Plato)