Perceptive Quotes

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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the… — Ansel Adams
There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose… — Robert Creeley
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and… — George Boole
We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you. The… — John Templeton
The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is,… — Lawrence Clark Powell
"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me… — Ansel Adams
The international monetary order is more precarious by far today than it was in 1929. Then, gold was international money, incorruptible, unmanageable, and unchangeable. Today,… — Hans F. Sennholz
I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset. — Ashley Judd
Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single,… — Minor White
I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning-raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing. — Irene Hunt
There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become… — Marsilio Ficino
A lawyerâ€™s either a social engineer or â€¦ a parasite on society â€¦ A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands]… — Charles Hamilton Houston
Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears… — Confucius
The climate dice are now loaded. Some seasons still will be cooler than the long-term average, but the perceptive person should notice that the frequency… — James Hansen
People "died" all the time. . . . Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception. — Samuel Alexander
God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And… — Lauren F. Winner
The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which… — Medard Boss
Conscious means "having an awareness of one's inner and outer worlds; mentally perceptive, awake, mindful." So "conscious business" might mean, engaging in an occupation, work,… — Ken Wilber
I was like twelve or something, when you first kiss a guy and you see the way the guy reacts, how they get really excited,… — Juliette Lewis

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