Perception Quotes
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.
Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.
Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false
We must be willing to take an honest look at ourselves and step out beyond our judgmental mind. It is here that we will have a life-altering shift in perception, an opening of our heart.
People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.
Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.
Our perception of space alters the space. It is consciousness that finds meanings in all spaces
To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that serve as doorways to the creative imagination. No one is excluded.
Intelligence is of paramount importance to live life sensibly, because without intelligence, there is no clarity. And Clarity is intelligence everyone is capable of.
Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving
What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone.
I came away from the talk with the perception that the risk of adverse side effects is so much greater than the risk of cervical cancer, I couldn’t help but question why we need the vaccine at all.
Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.
It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.
The Principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but it is perceived by the man who desires perception.
Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.
A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.
Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.
Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything.
STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)
Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear.
Your perception of the world around you is not necessarily the same as what is actually occurring.
All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates.
Thinking... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas
How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.
Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.
Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.
True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.
Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.
One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent—or, for that matter, an effective human being—is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to “get into their world.
You have the choice to be here as a speck of creation or as the very source of creation. Not exploring such a phenomenal possibility is a crime.
There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.