Perception Quotes

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Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they… — Henry David Thoreau
When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had… — Robert Fulghum
Do we choose to see possibilities? Do we really believe that they're there? Perception controls our reality, and if we don't believe it, we won't… — Dewitt Jones
This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your… — Adyashanti
He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent… — James Russell Lowell
But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility. — David Blunkett
When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. — David Cottrell
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another. — Neil Postman
Thinking... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear… — Rudolf Steiner
When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance. — Rudolf Steiner
And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
We pursue her in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her… — Octavio Paz
We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can… — Pauline Kael
Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to… — Aristotle
The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various 'individuals', or groups of 'individuals', experience of freedom… — Aberjhani
Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness. — Alfred North Whitehead
Our perception of space alters the space. It is consciousness that finds meanings in all spaces — Tarthang Tulku
The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He… — Abraham Maslow
The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be… — Dalai Lama
The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are beginning to realize… — John Dewey

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