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Perception Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.
- Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal…
- Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the…
- Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
- Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual…
- Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
- The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and…
- I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they…
- No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its…
- The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
- By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like…
- Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
- The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.
- 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,…
- The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
- What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
More Perception Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. — Marcus Aurelius
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius
- We live on the leash of our senses. — Diane Ackerman
- Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already… — Richard Bach
- No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal… — Ansel Adams
- Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. — Ansel Adams
- I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do… — Stephen Baldwin
- I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that. — Kate Beckinsale