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Definition of Perception

Perception

  1. The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.
  2. The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from conception.
  3. The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility.
  4. An idea; a notion.

Perception Quotations

The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
Paulo Coelho

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Aldous Huxley
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Perception Translations

perception in French is perception
perception in German is Wahrnehmung

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