Perceive Quotes - Page 17

• The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Mind, Feigning, Greater

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• I don't bother writing about Fox News. It is too easy. What I talk about are the liberal intellectuals, the ones who portray themselves and perceive themselves as challenging power, as courageous, as standing up for truth and justice. They are basically the guardians of the faith. They set the limits. They tell us how far we can go. They say, 'Look how courageous I am.' But do not go one millimeter beyond that. At least for the educated sectors, they are the most dangerous in supporting power.

  Noam Chomsky

  Writing, Justice, Challenges

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky, John Junkerman, Takei Masakazu (2015). “Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force”, p.4, Routledge

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• The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments

  Octavia Butler

  Differences, Inbreeding, Groups

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago”, p.334, Open Road Media

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• You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.

  Robert Shaw

  Metaphor

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• The world is full of signals that we don't perceive.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  World, Signals

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.313, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Achieve

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• I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity. The issue being debated was creationism, the idea that the Earth is 6,000 years old. As I understand it, this involves the Bible's Old Testament exclusively.

  Bill Nye

  Christian, Religious, Years

  Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use are means to the individual's liberation. We do not perceive how a man may be armed and at the same time bereft of his freedom.

  John Keegan

  Mean, Men, Liberty

  John Keegan (2012). “A History of Warfare”, p.94, Vintage

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• A horse perceives eye contact as provocative, as if it and its status in the herd are not being respected. If it cannot avoid eye contact, it will react in a different way, by rebelling for example. In dressage you don't get anywhere by not showing respect, however superior your species might be. Any animal trainer can tell you that. In the mountains in Argentina there's a wild horse which will jump off the nearest precipice if any human tries to ride it.

  Jo Nesbo

  Horse, Eye, Animal

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Oslo Trilogy: The Redbreast, Nemesis and The Devil's Star”, p.164, Random House

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• Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  World, Granted, Ability

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• We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.

  Martin Rees

  Space, Long, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.

  Martin Rees

  Stars, Children, Light

  "Small, Cheap and a Giant Leap for Britain". www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2003.

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• There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.

  Neil Postman

  Play, Roles, Way

  Neil Postman (2009). “Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World”, p.71, Delta

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• We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism.

  Antonio Damasio

  Perception, Mind, Links

  "Self Comes To Mind". Interview with Jonah Lehrer, www.wired.com. November 8, 2010.

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• Evolving Culture, Reality, as we perceive it, is largely shaped by the artifacts, both material and symbolic, of thought, thought that leads to creative manifestation in form and color. With that in mind, it might be suggested that the visual artist, - from commercial designer to fine art painter - has much to do with most things that enter your everyday visuals, and thus form a major portion of one's reality and, certainly, how this culture manifests and evolves.

  Robert Venosa

  Art, Reality, Color

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• Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

  Nate Silver

  Two, Different, Way

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• Each person carries an entire world within himself, and everything exists twice: once the way it is, the other the way he perceives it with his own eyes and feelings.

  Janusz Korczak

  Eye, Feelings, Way

  Janusz Korczak (1998). “A Voice for the Child: The Inspirational Words of Janusz Korczak”, Thorsons Pub

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• Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.

  Jason Silva

  Creativity, Ideas, Patterns

  "On Creativity, Marijuana and 'a Butterfly Effect in Thought'" by Jason Silva, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Men, Trying, Sometimes

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

  Gene Robinson

  Moving, Government, Views

  "Gene Robinson, Gay Bishop, Sets Sights On D.C. As Retirement Looms" by Jeffrey Macdonald, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Solidarity is learned through 'contact' rather than 'concepts.' Students in the course of their formation, must let the gritty reality of this world into their lives, so they can learn to feel it, think about it critically, respond to its suffering and engage it constructively. They should learn to perceive, think, judge, choose and act for the rights of others, especially the disadvantaged and the oppressed.

  Peter Hans Kolvenbach

  Reality, Thinking, Rights

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• In the hall of mirrors, you are everywhere. Which is the real you? Find your original Self, the one who perceives all the reflections and is amused by them. Then you will recognize your path and walk it.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Real, Reflection, Mirrors

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Dec 12, 2016

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• Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing.

  Tom Rath

  People, Occupation, Wellbeing

  "Happy at work, happy in life". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.nationalpost.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text to the category of poetry, the number of meaningful elements in it acquires the capacity to grow and the system of their combinations also becomes more complex.

  Yuri Lotman

  Meaningful, Art, Numbers

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• Most people perceive moderates as timid, middle-of-the-roaders, who can't take a stand.

  Rick Bayan

  People, Middle, Moderates

  "The Sweep: Vikings, voters and the charge of the Militant Middle" by Tom Foreman, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2010.

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