Perceptions Quotes

311 quotes by 255 authors

What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our… — Julian Assange
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions… — Ansel Adams
Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route. — Theodore Bikel
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. — Claudia Black
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these… — Edward de Bono
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason… — Edward de Bono
I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about… — Jim Brown
I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature… — Helena Bonham Carter
You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films… — Helena Bonham Carter
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us… — Willa Cather
That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain… — Harlan Coben
We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing sight of our… — Jean Klein
While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex,… — Eva Hoffman
We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and… — Noam Chomsky
It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this… — Jack Kornfield
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who… — Gottfried Leibniz
Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and… — Margery Allingham
Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our… — Matthieu Ricard
A new species is being born inside each one of us. Eventually, we will all express the perceptions and values of this new species. — Gary Zukav
The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly… — Erwin Schrodinger

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