Perception Quotes

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The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but… — Mark Twain
Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived. — William Blake
I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary… — Bill Gates
I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's also… — Eckhart Tolle
It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild. — Robert Breault
I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception,… — Robert Breault
Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity — Yatin Patel
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. — Mark Zandi
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of… — Aldous Huxley
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have… — George Edward Woodberry
The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure… — Samuel Johnson
Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are… — Wallace Stevens
Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or… — Wallace Stevens
The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last… — David Mamet
I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated… — Konrad Lorenz
To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize… — Andre Breton
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of… — John Drinkwater
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have… — Remy de Gourmont
The belief in God is not therefore based on the perception of design in nature. Belief in design in nature is based upon the belief… — Chapman Cohen

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