Perception Quotes - Page 2

• There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Art, Thinking, Caught

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  Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

  James Thurber

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  James Thurber (1983). “Credos and Curios”, HarperCollins

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• It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

  George Eliot

  Views, Perspective, Mind

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.367, Wordsworth Editions

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• What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Quantum Physics, Method

  Physics and Philosophy (1958)

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• Perception is real even when it is not reality.

  Edward de Bono

  Real, Reality

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• Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Science, Men

  Studies in Pessimism "Psychological Observations" (1851) (translation by T. Bailey Saunders)

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• Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

  Colin Powell

  Mirrors, Perspective, Car

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• Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

  Edward de Bono

  Mistake, Thinking, Logic

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.

  Fred Rogers

  Differences, Space, Our World

  "Revisiting Fred Rogers’ 2002 Commencement Address". news.dartmouth.edu. March 27, 2018.

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• What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Philosophy

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• Your perception of the world around you is not necessarily the same as what is actually occurring.

  Peter Ralston

  World, Perception Of The World

  Peter Ralston, Laura Ralston (2011). “Zen Body-Being: An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power”, p.7, North Atlantic Books

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• Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

  Edward de Bono

  Optimistic, Thinking, Errors

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• What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

  John Lubbock

  Inspirational, Being Happy, Attitude

  Sir John Lubbock (1897). “The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In”, p.2, Library of Alexandria

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• Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Happiness, Education

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 25, 2015

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• There is no truth. There is only perception.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Truth, Perspective, Favourite

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• It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Spiritual, Mistake, Vision

  "Man Visible and Invisible: Examples of Different Types of Men as Seen by Means of Trained Clairvoyance".

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• The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Life, Acceptance, Intelligent

  "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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• What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

  Martha Graham

  Thinking, People, Perspective

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• Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.

  Rajneesh

  Being Yourself, Ideas, Spirituality

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• People only see what they are prepared to see.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.514, Harvard University Press

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• Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

  Alan Watts

  Eye, Listening, Ears

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• Science is nothing but perception.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Science

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Not every person is going to understand you and that's okay. They have a right to their opinion and you have every right to ignore it.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

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