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Letter "P" » perceiving
«A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did»
Author: Konrad Lorenz
(Zoologist)
| About:
Delusion,
Men
| Keywords:
Delusions, flattering, gifted, perceiving, pompous, succumbing, succumbs, sufficiently, with humor
«I have come to think of this humanist trend in psychology as a revolution in the truest, oldest sense of the word; the sense in which Galileo, Darwin, Einstein, Freud and Marx made revolutions, i.e. new ways of perceiving and thinking, new images of»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Psychology
| Keywords:
Darwin, e'en, Einstein, Freud, Galileo, humanist, humanists, i.e., I E, Marx, oldest, perceiving, psychology, revolutions, trend, truest
«Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Gifts,
Talent
| Keywords:
perceiving, reveal, secretly
«Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
faculty, Faculty of, genius, perceiving, The Faculty
«To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of out own existence.»
«Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving- how not to do it.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
beforehand, circumlocution, departments, Department of, office, perceiving, required
«Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Pride
| Keywords:
borrows, cloak, honorable, perceiving
«Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
faculty, Faculty of, in truth, perceiving, The Faculty
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