Perception Quotes

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[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the… — Tom Wolfe
a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only… — Tom Wolfe
You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world. — Douglas Coupland
... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second. — Michael Chabon
Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception - what you think is true about a given situation. If your… — William P. Young
It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface… — Ann Brashares
Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments.… — Lauren Oliver
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor;… — Mark Twain
It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it. — Sarah Dessen
The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole. — Oscar Wilde
I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what Iâ€™m doing is judging natural events in such… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all… — Alexander Pushkin
the faster it ran away from me. And I found myself reasoning that perhaps one more beer would unlock the doors of perception, — Jeff Lindsay
Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the… — Richard Dawkins
The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man;… — Thomas Mann
Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see. — Henry Adams
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story.… — Oliver Sacks
Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been,… — Naomi Wolf
It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward roll, as well… — Ian Mcewan
Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass? — Douglas Coupland

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