Perception Quotes
1713 quotes by 1163 authors
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What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you…
— C.S. Lewis
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You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you…
— Jostein Gaarder
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Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
— Colin Powell
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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My perspective will create my perception
— Neale Donald Walsch
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This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to…
— Frank Herbert
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To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is…
— Gore Vidal
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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a…
— Don DeLillo
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As it turned out, my perception was so much more intimidating than the reality.
— Jennifer Baumgardner
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It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
— Albert Einstein
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The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.
— Aldo Leopold
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that…
— William S. Burroughs
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Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is ...
— Miyamoto Musashi
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If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from…
— Albert Einstein
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Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can…
— Ted Dekker
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I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with…
— Plutarch
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Humans see what they want to see.
— Rick Riordan
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How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
— Robin Hobb
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