Perception Quotes

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It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps… — Stanley Milgram
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for… — Norman Vincent Peale
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert
I really would like to stop working foreverâ€“never work again, never do anything like the kind of work Iâ€™m doing nowâ€“and do nothing but write… — Allen Ginsberg
True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some… — Dorothy Day
Songs are as sad as the listener. — Jonathan Safran Foer
...The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty. — James Redfield
One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before. — Anne Rice
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit… — Nicholas Sparks
Distance lends enchantment to the view. — Mark Twain
We can control our lives by controling our perceptions. — Bruce H. Lipton
The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are… — Wallace Stevens
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. — George Eliot
Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be… — Jacques Derrida
It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban… — Grant Morrison
There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others… — Jane Austen
Art and morality are, with certain provisosâ€¦one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of… — Iris Murdoch
Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off… — Vera Nazarian
An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that… — Jim Davis
The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion… — Francis Bacon

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