Perception Quotes

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There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be… — Amish Tripathi
The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and… — David Gerrold
By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human… — Frederick William Robertson
In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of… — Thomas Jefferson
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. — George Santayana
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them. — William James
I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City,… — Candace Bushnell
The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception. — John Hench
Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception… — Edward de Bono
When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite. — William Blake
... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world. — Susan Griffin
It is the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to… — Charles Webster Leadbeater
Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear… — Octavio Paz
What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss — Joseph Campbell
If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. — Shane Koyczan
With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the perception happen -… — Rajneesh
It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity… — James A. Baldwin
Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the… — Eugene S. Ferguson
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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