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perceptions
«Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.»
«It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| About:
Humor,
Reason
| Keywords:
involved, perceptions, philosophers, significant, sort out, surprised
«In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
continue, encyclopedia, encyclopedias, freeze, freezes, freezing, froze, frozen, insist, in a sense, in history, perceptions
«All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Beginning,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
origins, perceptions
«All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Media
| Keywords:
arbitrary, artificial, invest, media, perceptions
«In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
connect, delicate, exceedingly, First to, perceptions, reverence, searcher, threads
«I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Emotion,
Intelligence,
Mind
| Keywords:
binary, human intelligence, Human perception, operate, perceptions
«I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion. We can someday replicate that on a machine. Earthly life is carbon based and computers are»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Computers,
Intelligence
| Keywords:
binary, carbon, carbons, earthly, earthly life, human intelligence, Human perception, operate, perceptions, replicate, replicates, replicating
«I find that because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, and as a result of the great increase in population, our world has greatly changed: it has become much smaller. However, our perceptions have not evolved at the same pace; we continue to cling to old national demarcations and the old feelings of 'us' and 'them'.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
cling, cling to, economies, economy, Economy of, evolution, evolved, evolves, evolving, global, Global economy, greatly, increase, national, pace, paced, paces, pacing, perceptions, population, smaller, small change, technological, This Modern World
«It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
dull, dumb, impertinence, perceptions, vanity
