Our Perceptions Quotes
46 quotes by 39 authors
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What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our…
— Julian Assange
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us…
— Willa Cather
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Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our…
— Matthieu Ricard
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Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain.…
— Marianne Williamson
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I find that because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, and as a result of the great increase in population, our world has…
— Dalai Lama
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Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.
— Stephen Batchelor
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The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on…
— Marianne Williamson
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Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present…
— Chandra Talpade Mohanty
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I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect…
— Ellen Meloy
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It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The media has enormous power. The media is undergoing huge changes now. It seemed like it's time to step back and look at how the…
— Thomas Hunt Morgan
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All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality
— Matthieu Ricard
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To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to…
— Val Plumwood
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Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as…
— David Eagleman
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We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an optical illusion. The…
— Ivan Vladislavic
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Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.
— Ilchi Lee
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Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and…
— Freda Adler
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Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning…
— Scott Adams
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