Perceived Quotes
493 quotes by 436 authors
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she was aware of his love - how could she not? She perceived it every time he looked at her. He was not demonstrative, but…
— Cecilia Dart-Thornton
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The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And some have been known to fall in it. In tennis it's nothing, but…
— Trenton Lee Stewart
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We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new…
— Louis Sachar
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A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.
— William S. Burroughs
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The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your…
— Conan O'Brien
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An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.
— Louis Sachar
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It is supposed that power corrupts,' the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. "yet the powerful are often corrupt before they…
— Frank Beddor
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When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.
— Stephen Covey
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It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different…
— Lord Dunsany
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Taking away a person's control of her own life - meaning her bank account - is one of the greatest infringements a democracy can impose,…
— Steig Larsson
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The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the…
— Ann Voskamp
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Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
— Albert Einstein
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He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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sometimes, how a situation is perceived carries more weight than the reality of the matter.
— Tammara Webber
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They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves in the air;…
— Wendy Mass
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Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.
— Mark Helprin
Who Wrote These Perceived Quotes
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