1.2 Activity : perception in Aphorisms

Perception Is Everything (This assignment is due before you leave class today) 

1. An aphorism is a succinct statement expressing an opinion, perception, or general truth. Open a new document in your One drive reading folder and title it perception in wise sayings Choose four aphorisms that you especially like from the following list.  Copy and paste the quotes onto your document then Paraphrase the quotes you have chosen, and explain how the quotes relate to the ideas of seeing and understanding.

• "What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are." - C. S. Lewis
• "The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust
• "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." - Tom Wilson
• "All photographs are accurate.  None of them is the truth." - Richard Avedon
• "There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception." -Aldous Huxley
• "The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." - Henri Bergson
• "Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world." - George Bernard Shaw
• "Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may the larger part) always comes out of our own mind." - William James
• "Language forces us to perceive the world as men present it to us." - Julia Penelope
• "if we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world." - Ludwig Wittgenstein

2. Submit to this assignment.