When we start building perceptions based on our own…

I am entirely against censorship. It goes against my basic grain - a mature society need not be told what to do.

— Tisca Chopra

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

— Salman Rushdie

In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

— Robert A. Heinlein

To be okay with not knowing is a sign of a mature person and a mature society.

— Hisham Matar

The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have,…

— Bertrand Russell

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

— Kenneth Koch

“our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We are for…

— Aldous Huxley

television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with…

— Elizabeth Janeway

Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“But things change, people change - as do perceptions of people, and now I answer in a language that I hope my teenage self…

— Ali Harris

We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.

— Frederick Lenz

I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a…

— Bill Gates

“For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.”

— Virginia Woolf

The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way…

— David D. Burns

There may be little practical difference between a Ford Mondeo and a BMW three series, but in terms of perceptions of who you are…

— Martin Jacques