Perceive Quotes
907 Perceive quotes by 674 unique authors
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The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic…
— Paulo Freire
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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
— David Hume
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nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility
— E E Cummings
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The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.
— Aldo Leopold
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In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.
— Charles Baudelaire
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You were born into a state of grace. It is impossible for you to leave it. You will die in a state of grace whether…
— Jane Roberts
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Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive…
— M. Scott Peck
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Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities.…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they…
— Neil Gaiman
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Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one…
— Norah Vincent
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There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know…
— Ram Dass
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After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need…
— Tim Wise
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Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality…
— Ayn Rand
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The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a…
— Dave Barry
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But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind…
— Chuck Klosterman
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I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would…
— John Wyndham
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Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as…
— Aldo Leopold
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Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants,…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown…
— Aldous Huxley
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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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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We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of…
— Farley Mowat
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