Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive. — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek,… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive,… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity… — Origen Copy Share Image
Well, it all depends on how you, you know, perceive the religion angle. I always say to each their own and I'd… — Boomer Esiason Copy Share Image
After Self-Realisation it is easy to perceive the truth that all these religions were born on the same tree of spirituality, but… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The universe is ecstasy. We have many other ways of perceiving infinity. And when you perceive life through these other modes, that's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
There may be beings, thinking beings, near or surrounding us, which we do not perceive, which we cannot imagine. We know very… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Liberals correctly perceive the Reagan record as their most dangerous enemy. Why? Because what happened during the 1980s - prosperity at home… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
My perception of the human animal is as an extremely dangerous predator. That's who I perceive us to be as a species.… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
We call ourselves Homo sapiens--man the wise--because our intelligence is so important to us. For thousands of years, we have tried to… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
Our physical senses and our embodied brains allow us to perceive only a small fraction of reality. We cannot see microbes or… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
The information is there, you may not perceive it, but it does affect the lower orders. There are places where it just… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as… — Giorgio Napolitano Copy Share Image
Reincarnation is a process in which a finite being will go through a series of transmutations and will perceive different things. There… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
If you think someone committed a crime, you should turn them in to whomever you perceive authority to be. — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people… — Shannon Hoon Copy Share Image
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts -… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The fact that someone didn't experience the war itself doesn't mean that he doesn't perceive its consequences. — Guido Westerwelle Copy Share Image
Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man… — Chris Hegedus Copy Share Image
Listening to what people in other countries are saying and trying to understand how they perceive their place in the world is… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
