Our Perceptions Quotes
46 quotes by 39 authors
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When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly.
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
— M H Abrams
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Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.
— George Clinton
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Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
— Willa Cather
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Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.
— Frederick Lenz
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So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.
— Daniel Keys Moran
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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths…
— Virginia Woolf
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We can control our lives by controling our perceptions.
— Bruce H. Lipton
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We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still…
— Alan Moore
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Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our…
— Gary Zukav
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What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is…
— Alan Moore
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Light is important to us humans. It influences our moods, our perceptions, our energy levels. A face glimpsed among trees, dappled by the shadows and…
— John Marsden
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That is the beauty of memory, isn’t it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
— Stephen Covey
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Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...
— Nicholas Sparks
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If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story.…
— Oliver Sacks
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Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.
— Carl Sagan
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