Perception Quotes

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Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced… — Miyamoto Musashi
I know everything, you see,' the old voice wheedled. 'The beginning, the present, the end. Everything. You now, you see the past and the present,… — John Gardner
And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely… — Jess Walter
But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didnâ€™t need the Mist to warp their perceptions. — Rick Riordan
The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project… — Raymond Chandler
You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others. — Bryant H. McGill
Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed… — Paulo Coelho
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his… — Thomas Mann
If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others -… — Marya Hornbacher
we usually think of ourselves as sitting the driver's seat, with ultimate control over the decisions we made and the direction our life takes; but,… — Dan Ariely
The private experience that you perceive forms your world, period. But which world do you inhabit? For if you altered your private sensations of reality,… — Jane Roberts
Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious — Carl Jung
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly,… — Nikos Kazantzakis
When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, â€˜Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to… — Marianne Williamson
It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence. — David Levithan
Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response… — Dean Koontz
Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world,… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been… — Andy Stanley
What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,â€ Dr. Bloom said. â€œHe can assume your point of view, or mine â€“ and maybe… — Thomas Harris
The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre… — Guy Davenport

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