Perceptions Quotes

311 quotes by 255 authors

The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I… — David Lindsay-Abaire
Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. Breathe… — Nhat Hanh
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but… — Mark Twain
Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived. — William Blake
I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary… — Bill Gates
I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's also… — Eckhart Tolle
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of… — Aldous Huxley
Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are… — Wallace Stevens
I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated… — Konrad Lorenz
Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured. — Thomas E. Mann
You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different. — Bernhard Langer
Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London,… — Oscar Pistorius
Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend… — Frederick Lenz
We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life. — Frederick Lenz
Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as… — Frederick Lenz
It's not that you get a clichÃ© and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it… — Martin Amis
As you evolve and develop your psychic abilities, you will enter into perceptions of life, truth, beauty and you will gain a power to live… — Frederick Lenz
Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete. — Frederick Lenz
Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like. — Mira Sorvino

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