Perceptions Quotes

311 quotes by 255 authors

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us. — Virginia Satir
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. — Gail Sheehy
It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance. — Arthur Smith
The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer. — Arthur Smith
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. — Mark Twain
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. — Leonardo da Vinci
People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no business can afford… — Julian Baggini
People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others. — Frans de Waal
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths… — Virginia Woolf
This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to… — Frank Herbert
To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is… — Gore Vidal
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a… — Don DeLillo
I really would like to stop working foreverâ€“never work again, never do anything like the kind of work Iâ€™m doing nowâ€“and do nothing but write… — Allen Ginsberg
We can control our lives by controling our perceptions. — Bruce H. Lipton
The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are… — Wallace Stevens
An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that… — Jim Davis
The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion… — Francis Bacon
Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal… — Tom Robbins
We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still… — Alan Moore

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