Perception Quotes
1713 quotes by 1163 authors
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Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your…
— Edward de Bono
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
— Edward de Bono
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
— Edward de Bono
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these…
— Edward de Bono
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason…
— Edward de Bono
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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
— Edward de Bono
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I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about…
— Jim Brown
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People have a perception of me because of Victoria's Secret that I'm sexy, but I'm not a sexy girl. I'm very tomboyish.
— Gisele Bundchen
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One person's craziness is another person's reality.
— Tim Burton
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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very…
— George Carlin
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In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war…
— John le Carre
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Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
— Alexis Carrel
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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of…
— Raymond Chandler
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I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us…
— Willa Cather
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There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system…
— Deepak Chopra
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In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
— Chuck Close
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