Perceptive Quotes
64 Perceptive quotes by 62 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.
— Ashley Judd
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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
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I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning-raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.
— Irene Hunt
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There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become…
— Marsilio Ficino
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A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands]…
— Charles Hamilton Houston
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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
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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
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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
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
— Samuel Alexander
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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
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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
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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
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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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When the perceptive child of God stops to weigh the meaning of these words, then notes the connection in which they are found, he or…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story in…
— Robin McKinley
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You are a multidimensiona l being because your human body houses your spirit body, and your spirit body is not limited by dimensions of time,…
— James Van Praagh
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Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Floyd Skloot’s Revertigo is a beautifully-written, moving account of one man’s off kilter life. Who would have imaged a memoir exploring months of extreme vertigo…
— Dinty W. Moore
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