Perception Quotes
1713 quotes by 1163 authors
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The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that…
— Mark Thomas
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I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended…
— Jonathan Ive
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So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference.
— Thomas S. Monson
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The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my…
— Olivia Williams
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Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and…
— Mark Rylance
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The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to…
— Margaret Mead
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Synchronistic events offer us perceptions that may be useful in our psychological and spiritual growth and may reveal to us, through intuitive knowledge, that our…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. No woman can be well dressed unless she is comfortable…
— Bill Blass
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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with…
— Henri Bergson
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Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but by his perception…
— Peter Kropotkin
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a…
— E. M. Forster
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The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and…
— Flannery O'Connor
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We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.
— Beyonce Knowles
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I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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I've never been reckless-it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.
— Drake
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Drake just stands for Do Right And Kill Everything
— Drake
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Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that…
— Matthew Simpson
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Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our…
— Claude Debussy
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