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“A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may.”

Wells May Simple Pleasure Perception Capacity Simple Pleasures

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.”

Men Art Two Three Ability Talent He Man Materials Genius Ten Perception Ordinary Capacity Plus Multiple Register Ordinary Man

Author:Ezra Pound

“What, then, is the basic difference between today's computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to seebut not to perceive. What matters here is not that the computer is without consciousness but that thus far it is incapable of the spontaneous grasp of pattern--a capacity essential to perception and intelligence.”

Made Matter Today Differences Consciousness Essentials Computer Perception Capacity Intelligent Patterns Perceive What Matters Incapable Spontaneous

Book:Visual Thinking

Source: Visual Thinking

“The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity.”

“There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance.”

Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

“Know that for the human mind there are certain objects of perception which are within the scope of its nature and capacity; on the other hand, there are, amongst things which actually exist, certain objects which the mind can in no way and by no means grasp: the gates of perception are closed against it.”

Knows Way Mind Humans Mean Hands Certain Objects Perception Capacity Gates Human Mind Scope

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent behavior seems to vary directly with his perception of others as individual humans with human motives and feelings, whereas his capacity for barbarism seems related to his perception of an adversary in abstract terms, as the embodiment, that is, of some evil design or ideology.”

“But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can tell. If intelligent people invested intense energy in issues that now seem foolish to us, then the failure lies in our understanding of their world, not in their distorted perceptions.”

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will be yourself and I will be myself, with quickened senses amplified powers of perception, and vastly increased capacity for reason, understanding, love, and happiness, all of which are qualities we may develop now. Our machines wear out, our barns fall down, and our substance goes back to the dust, but our finest collection of personal qualities will have eternal life.”

“If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could exist. 'Being,' in its traditional usage, means 'presence' and 'persistence.' To achieve presence, and thereby being, an entity requires some sort of open realm in which presence and persistence can take place. Thus an open realm of perception like that of human existence is the one being that makes being possible.”

Ifs Men World Humans Mean Existence Achieve Perception Capacity Traditional Persistence Realms Engaged Entity Human Existence Receptive Usage

Author:Medard Boss

“Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.”

Mind Mean Pure Perception Capacity Observation Recovering Clearing

Author:Ilchi Lee

“Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.”

Humans Facts Reality Truth Can Do Brain Perception Built Capacity Practicals Settling Human Brain Discerning Scientific Facts True Fact

Author:Scott Adams