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Perception Quotes
"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few."
"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."
"Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself."
"But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility."
"Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction."
"He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star."
"What you expect, it will happen."
"People don't believe what is true but believes what they hear regularly."
"No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes."
"A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes."
"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception."
"It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures."
"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."
"I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that."
"He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it."
"Beauty is only there when you have the ability to see and appreciate it."
"A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out."
"So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality."
"I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several."
"Because a spoon is made of gold does not change the soup's taste."
"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
"There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy."
"When perception will change then today's sadness could be tomorrow's happiness."
"The deaf cannot hear wind, but can feel its touch. The blind cannot see the sun, but can feel its warmth."
"What you say about the world reflects more about you and your perception of the world than the world itself."
"They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity."
"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things."
"These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know."
"The world is not outside of you. The world is inside you."
"No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area."
"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly."
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking."
"People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time."
"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."
"What you say reflects how you feel about the world."
"To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."
"What you see is not true, but what you think about what you see is the truth."
"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. The world is a reflection of you."
"In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli."
"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans."
"Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that."
"You cannot have a beautiful life if you always focus on ugliness in others."
"What you feel is making sense could really be dramatized nonsense. So think again."
"A gloss is a total system of perception and language."
"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour."
"Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic."
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