We Perceive Quotes

124 quotes by 105 authors

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
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
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
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
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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
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
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
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us. — Jane Roberts
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
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
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
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
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
In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times. — Charles Baudelaire
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
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
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
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
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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