Perception Quotes

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The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything. — Terry Goodkind
I am not against the pharmaceutical companies. I love them. That's not the issue. The issue is, in some cases, when they do these clinical… — Catherine D. DeAngelis
It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may… — William James
Well, I think I'm not a non-believer, and I'm not a believer. But, on the other hand, I couldn't give you a good enough reason… — Michael Keaton
These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them.… — Dave Sim
Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success. — Michael Arndt
It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception of consequences would… — Robert Green Ingersoll
For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is… — Aristotle
The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it. — Byron Katie
One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things… — Tom Robbins
The new limitations are the human ones of perception. — Milton Babbitt
Truth is that which does not contaminate you, but empowers you. Therefore, there are degrees of truth, but, generically, truth is that which can do… — Gary Zukav
'One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever.' — Robert Holden
If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities. — Peter Drucker
World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. — Stephen Jay Gould
We ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we entitle "nature". We could never find them in appearances had we not ourselves,… — Immanuel Kant
Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves… — Immanuel Kant
An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen… — Wilfred Trotter
It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the… — Sofia Kovalevskaya
To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a… — George Gaylord Simpson

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