Perception Quotes · Page 13

With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the…

— Oliver Sacks

If you can die, you are confused because death is a perception of something ending and something else obviously beginning, which means…

— Frederick Lenz

To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means…

— Ayn Rand

Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They…

— Julian Assange

“Don't let societies perceptions and opinions define who you are as a person. Where is it written that you cannot be great…

— Nyki Mack

If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.

— Audre Lorde

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.

— M.I.A

“The person in the mirror is waiting for you to believe that their reflection is greater than what can be contained by…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“People carry around with them internalization's fixed-feature space learned early in life. Man is like other members of the animal kingdom ,…

— Edward T. Hall

“Love is a conscious matter growing and rising from the heart. Its manifestation is an enlightening awareness from within the soul. It…

— Joseph S. Spence Sr

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

— Voltaire

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's…

— Steve Young

You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.

— Byron Katie

“We are who people think we are. The reality is irrelevant.”

— Lionel Suggs

Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is…

— George Will

I don't see the people who I'm inspired by doing the same jobs I'm doing or getting the same support. It's upsetting.…

— Alex Consani

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and…

— William Fleming

There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or…

— John Boorman

“The symbol is not a mere formality; it is the very essence of algebra. Without the symbol the object is a human…

— Tobias Dantzig

I had very good bosses, very good companies for which I worked. I worked in industries where the results really mattered; it…

— Sallie Krawcheck

Understanding the difference between perception and reality can help you to live a happier life.

— Anonymous

I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are,…

— Lester Grinspoon

It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in…

— Wallace Stevens