Perceiving Quotes

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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit oneâ€™s emotions. — Ayn Rand
The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are… — Wallace Stevens
One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange… — William Gibson
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it. — Ayn Rand
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the… — Alan Watts
In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference. — Douglas Hofstadter
Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may… — Michael Shermer
The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of… — Aldous Huxley
The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers… — JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in… — Aldous Huxley
Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly,too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There… — John C. Maxwell
The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to… — Michael Crichton
Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and… — Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you… — Marissa Meyer
But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no… — Voltaire
Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world,… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions. — Stephen Brookfield
Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead.… — Theodore Isaac Rubin
Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous… — Konrad Lorenz

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