Common Perception Quotes

If you can get them to see the world as you do, they will think as you do.

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.

Most people don't see Hamlet as an old bald guy.

The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.

In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common

A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

The real, then, is that which, sooner or later, information and reasoning would finally result in, and which is therefore independent of the vagaries of me and you. Thus, the very origin of the conception of reality shows that this conception essentially involves the notion of a COMMUNITY, without definite limits, and capable of a definite increase of knowledge.

Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.

Everyone has an 'I thought Elliott was crazy' story.

Truth does not belong to an individual.

Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.