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title: "31 Perceive Things Quotes by 28 authors"
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> [To perceive things in the germ is intelligence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lao-tzu/to-perceive-things-in-the-germ-is-intelligence/)

[Lao Tzu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lao-tzu/)

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> [If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-parry-liddon/if-man-looks-within-himself-he-must-perceive-two-things-a-law-of/)

[Henry Parry Liddon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-parry-liddon/)

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> [There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama/there-is-often-a-big-disparity-between-the-way-in-which-we-perceive/)

[Dalai Lama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalai-lama/)

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> [We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-williamson/we-can-always-choose-to-perceive-things-differently-you-can-focus-on/)

[Marianne Williamson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-williamson/)

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> [No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-crutcher/no-amount-of-effort-could-have-stopped-that-because-our-points-of/)

[Chris Crutcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-crutcher/)

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> [Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-locke/understanding-like-the-eye-whilst-it-makes-us-see-and-perceive-all/)

[John Locke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-locke/)

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> [“I do not subscribe to this communal error of judging a man according to the way I perceive things.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/i-do-not-subscribe-to-this-communal-error-of-judging-a-man-according/)

[Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/)

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> [“We might say that we perceive the things themselves, that we are the world that thinks itself--or that the world is at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-merleau-ponty/we-might-say-that-we-perceive-the-things-themselves-that-we-are-the/)

[Maurice Merleau-Ponty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-merleau-ponty/)

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> [It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-minsky/it-would-be-as-useless-to-perceive-how-things-actually-look-as-it/)

[Marvin Minsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-minsky/)

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> [Do not think dishonestly... Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. Perceive those things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miyamoto-musashi/do-not-think-dishonestly-distinguish-between-gain-and-loss-in-worldly/)

[Miyamoto Musashi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miyamoto-musashi/)

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> [There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-lenz/there-s-no-way-we-can-possibly-understand-anything-but-we-can-see/)

[Frederick Lenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-lenz/)

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> [I'm interested in that way we perceive things, and that was part of what I was getting into in painting - the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-wagner/i-m-interested-in-that-way-we-perceive-things-and-that-was-part-of/)

[Kurt Wagner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-wagner/)

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> [Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-p-cavafy/of-what-s-to-come-the-wise-perceive-things-about-to-happen-sometimes/)

[C.P. Cavafy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-p-cavafy/)

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> [“The way we tend to perceive things to be does not accord with the way they are. Again, this does not nihilistically…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thupten-jinpa/the-way-we-tend-to-perceive-things-to-be-does-not-accord-with-the-way/)

[Thupten Jinpa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thupten-jinpa/)

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> [You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/you-perceive-now-that-these-things-are-all-impossible-except-in-a/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-pacino/i-m-an-actor-and-everything-about-me-the-way-i-perceive-things-the/)

[Al Pacino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/al-pacino/)

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> [“Ye cannot find out the depth of the heart of man, neither can ye perceive the things that he thinketh; then how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/ye-cannot-find-out-the-depth-of-the-heart-of-man-neither-can-ye/)

[W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/)

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> [As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wynn-bullock/as-i-became-aware-that-all-things-have-unique-spatial-and-temporal/)

[Wynn Bullock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wynn-bullock/)

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> [“The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself: and it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-locke/the-understanding-like-the-eye-whilst-it-makes-us-see-and-perceive/)

[John Locke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-locke/)

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> [There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-bruner/there-is-perhaps-one-universal-truth-about-all-forms-of-human/)

[Jerome Bruner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-bruner/)

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> [It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luc-de-clapiers/it-is-in-our-own-mind-and-not-in-exterior-objects-that-we-perceive/)

[Luc de Clapiers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luc-de-clapiers/)

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> [“human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/human-beings-do-not-perceive-things-whole-we-are-not-gods-but-wounded/)

[Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/)

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> [Power is the band that we perceive things on. In radio we have stations. Frequencies vibrate at certain rates and within those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-lenz/power-is-the-band-that-we-perceive-things-on-in-radio-we-have/)

[Frederick Lenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-lenz/)

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> [Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/viggo-mortensen/photography-painting-or-poetry-those-are-just-extensions-of-me-how-i/)

[Viggo Mortensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/viggo-mortensen/)

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> [The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/the-light-is-there-and-colors-surround-us-however-if-there-were-no/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

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> [“We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-williamson/we-can-always-choose-to-perceive-things-differently-we-can-focus-on/)

[Marianne Williamson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-williamson/)

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> [For a very long time now, we've seen things one way, which is through the eyes of men. Quite frankly, I'm a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyriq-bent/for-a-very-long-time-now-we-ve-seen-things-one-way-which-is-through/)

[Lyriq Bent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyriq-bent/)

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> [I have seen several hardships since I was a child. As a result, I don't perceive things the way most people do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nana-patekar/i-have-seen-several-hardships-since-i-was-a-child-as-a-result-i-don-t/)

[Nana Patekar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nana-patekar/)

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> [What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dick-dale/what-we-perceive-things-to-be-when-they-come-out-of-our-mouth-is-not/)

[Dick Dale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dick-dale/)

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> [Remember this maxim: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. The way you perceive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-dyer/remember-this-maxim-when-you-change-the-way-you-look-at-things-the/)

[Wayne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wayne-dyer/)

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> [“In the same way as some illiterate, if he saw an open book, would notice the figures, but would not comprehend the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-of-saint-victor/in-the-same-way-as-some-illiterate-if-he-saw-an-open-book-would/)

[Hugh of Saint Victor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-of-saint-victor/)

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