We Perceive Quotes
124 quotes by 105 authors
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When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which…
— Arthur Koestler
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We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they have to deceive…
— Richard Wiseman
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Power is the band that we perceive things on. In radio we have stations. Frequencies vibrate at certain rates and within those frequencies we transmit…
— Frederick Lenz
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know…
— Ansel Adams
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Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually…
— Imran Khan
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The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people…
— Andrew McCarthy
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To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide…
— Tony Robbins
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Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
— Jane Roberts
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Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others…
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always…
— William James
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It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we…
— Kathleen Norris
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When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities.…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our…
— Gary Zukav
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There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.
— Jacqueline Carey
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Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a…
— Dean Koontz
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