Perception Quotes - Page 9

• Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Differences, People, Shadow

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

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• We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. No woman can be well dressed unless she is comfortable in what she is wearing.

  Bill Blass

  Fashion, Reality, Style

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• We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Haste, Hours, Comprehension

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• All perception is colored by emotion.

  Immanuel Kant

  Emotion

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• There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

  Jane Austen

  Character, Natural, Penetration

  Jesse Zuba, Jane Austen (2009). “Persuasion - Jane Austen”, p.100, Infobase Publishing

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• She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

  George Eliot

  Struggle, Adjusting, Facts

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.244, Penguin

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• Our beliefs are what create our experiences. As we change our beliefs, we alter our perception, our version of reality.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Reality, Belief, Versions

  Twitter post from Oct 23, 2016

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• Karma means who you are and where your awareness field is on the band of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Mean, Band

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• Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ocean, Character, Waste

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.226

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• All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Learning, Knowledge

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various 'individuals', or groups of 'individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their "pursuit of happiness" to outright obliterating it.

  Aberjhani

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Impact, Differences

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• Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Triumph, Negative, Consciousness

  Russell L. Kleinbach, Karl Marx, Alfred North Whitehead (1982). “Marx via process: Whitehead's potential contribution to Marxian social theory”

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• Our perception of space alters the space. It is consciousness that finds meanings in all spaces

  Tarthang Tulku

  Space, Consciousness, Find Me

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• The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are beginning to realize that emotions and imagination are more potent in shaping public sentiment and opinion than information and reason.

  John Dewey

  Appreciation, Real, Artist

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• There is a common perception that compassion is, if not actually an impediment, at least irrelevant to professional life. Personally, I would argue that not only is it relevant, but that when compassion is lacking, our activities are in danger of becoming destructive. This is because when we ignore the question of the impact our actions have on others' well-being, inevitably we end up hurting them.

  Dalai Lama

  Hurt, Compassion, Impact

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• I always feel like I can do anything. That's the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself... If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything

  Kanye West

  People, Taught, Feels

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• Reality is based on perception

  Geoff Thompson

  Reality

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• Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you. You drag in some general-purpose value words. You throw in a sneer or two about the opposition, and you are a fine fellow who made a fine speech.

  Edward de Bono

  Two, Suits You, Doe

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• The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.

  Sol LeWitt

  Simple, Ideas, Visuals

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• Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)

  George Carlin

  Doors, Hallucinogens, Window

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• The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception. Visionary art encourages the development of our inner sight. To find the visionary realm, we use the intuitive inner eye: The eye of contemplation; the eye of the soul. All the inspiring ideas we have as artists originate here.

  Alex Grey

  Art, Eye, Sight

  Interview with Nina Pak, miroirmagazine.com. June 6, 2014.

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• Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

  M. H. Abrams

  Thinking, Keys, Helping

  "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)" by Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

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• For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings are made, where there is a sense of this gathering of perceptions, that our death is not the most important thing, nor our life.

  Michael Leunig

  Art, Long, Soul

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• These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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