Perceived Quotes
493 quotes by 436 authors
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The next generation of women will enter a world in which they are perceived to have more opportunities for creating fulfilling lives than women have…
— Elizabeth Debold
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Reality is not the world as you perceive it. Reality is the world perceived through enlightenment. It's the same world; but it's not the same…
— Frederick Lenz
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I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only…
— John Ciardi
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Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should…
— Edvard Munch
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Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and…
— Joseph Hall
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As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we…
— François-René de Chateaubriand
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The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.
— Quentin Bell
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We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values -- looking good, having cash in the bank, being…
— Madonna Ciccone
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I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes perceived, a world…
— Maurice de Vlaminck
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Thought and action can be perceived as two different dimensions of who you are: the mental you and the physical you
— Steve Pavlina
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We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will and…
— Kazimir Malevich
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The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of…
— Herbert Read
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Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over,…
— Elizabeth Fishel
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When I talk about the realm of spirit, happiness, nirvana, enlightenment, I'm not talking about something ideal or imaginary. There are realms of light that…
— Frederick Lenz
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Perfectionism is self-destructive simply because there is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. Additionally, perfectionism is more about perception - we…
— Brené Brown
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The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication born…
— John Paul Caponigro
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An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore,…
— Daniel Pauly
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