Our Perception Quotes
62 quotes by 52 authors
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Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity,…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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When we find delight in another person, we've actually found something joyful inside ourselves that involves a shift in our awareness, a shift in our…
— Deepak Chopra
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Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.
— Josef Albers
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Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance…
— Barry Lopez
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For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are…
— John Calvin
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The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.
— Marshall McLuhan
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Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.
— Timothy Findley
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Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.
— Margaret Visser
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Our world exists onlythrough our perception of it. Change our perception of our world and we change the world -- for us.
— Roger Dawson
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When we resent someone in some way we need to "be on the alert" that even innocent gestures on their part can become suspect to…
— Cindy Wright
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I do believe that everything we see, everything that is in front of us is just the visible part of reality. We have the invisible…
— Paulo Coelho
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When we look at an object in a different way our perception of it immediately changes. But reality always stays the same...
— Sergio Pinto
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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it
— Anais Nin
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If busyness can become a kind of violence, we do not have to stretch our perception very far to see that Sabbath time – effortless,…
— Wayne Muller
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Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
— Robert Delaunay
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Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and awaken…
— David Simon
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I make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold it...my work is more about your…
— James Turrell
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We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might…
— Don DeLillo
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Our perception of space alters the space. It is consciousness that finds meanings in all spaces
— Tarthang Tulku
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The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be…
— Dalai Lama
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