Perception Quotes

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I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desertâ€”under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect… — Ellen Meloy
There is no reality, only perception. — Phil McGraw
We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest… — George W. Bush
When you don't take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the universe like a… — Chris Hardwick
Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance… — Barry Lopez
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and… — Dorothea Lange
It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the… — Gwyneth Paltrow
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is… — Philip K. Dick
These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child… — John Hume
If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and… — Albert Ellis
Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger… — John Stuart Mill
If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with… — Joan Didion
The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown… — Max Horkheimer
The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the… — Max Horkheimer
During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanityâ€™s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception… — Walter Benjamin
Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends. — Hannibal
The vast majority of local people will neither know all of the initiatives nor have any perception that the individual elements are beginning to contribute… — Paul Burrell
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fictionâ€”and poetry and dramaâ€” cleanse the doors of perception. — Ursula K. Le Guin

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