Perception Quotes

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The fear you feel is a direct reflection of the perception y

The fear you feel is a direct reflection of the perception you have of yourself.

Perception

No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does no

No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.

Man Perception

Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. O

Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

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We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are.

We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are.

Perception

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thought

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

Charles Dickens

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You must have a positive self perception in order to transce

You must have a positive self perception in order to transcend anything.

Perception Inspire Transcend

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Perception Door

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Douglas Adams, speech at Digital

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If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would a

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite.For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

William Blake, The Marriage of H

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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Perception

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousan

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Napoleon, Maxims

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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Perception

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Perception

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

Harold Wallace Ross

Perception

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent;

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Perception

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two C

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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Desiderius Erasmus, Adages

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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poe

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Wallace Stevens

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A man is literally what he thinks.

A man is literally what he thinks.

Attitude Author British Perception