Perception Quotes

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. — Oscar Wilde
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or… — E. O. Wilson
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. — Oprah Winfrey
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. — P.G. Wodehouse
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its… — William Wordsworth
I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care. — Felix Dennis
People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no business can afford… — Julian Baggini
People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others. — Frans de Waal
A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque… — Martin Filler
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a… — Jim Henson
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It's all in the mind. — George Harrison
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes… — John Irving
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small. — Corrie Ten Boom
Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths… — Virginia Woolf
Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my… — Flann O'Brien
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business. — Martha Graham
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. — Leo Tolstoy
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation;… — John Stuart Mill

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