Perception Quotes

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Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom,… — Arthur C. Clarke
There are things of such darkness and horrorâ€”just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beautyâ€”that they will not fit through the puny… — Stephen King
In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The heart is an organ of perception. — Surya Das
The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything… — Carlos Castaneda
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. — Rabindranath Tagore
What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise… — Margaret Atwood
Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together. — Rebecca Solnit
He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking… — Peter De Vries
At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal… — Tom Robbins
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.'… — Isaac Asimov
We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still… — Alan Moore
Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our… — Gary Zukav
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose. — Neil Postman
Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate… — Susanna Kaysen
Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say — George Eliot
He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against… — Kelly Corrigan
What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light… — Terry Tempest Williams

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