Perception Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

38 Perception Quotes
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“Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.”
William Blake Quotes
“It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.”
C. W. Leadbeater Quotes
“People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.”
Neale Donald Walsch Quotes
“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.”
Richard Dawkins Quotes
“To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.”
Claude Simon Quotes
“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”
Camille Pissarro Quotes
“Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little bit unsure, careful. It's funny.”
Mischa Barton Quotes
“As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes
Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 481)
“He gives us the very quintessence of perception.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes
Source: My Study Windows--Coleridge
“Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.”
Fulke Greville Quotes
“A pot clashes with its lid In someones hurried kitchen A telephone boils off the hook. Outside, a car door An airplane pulls a drag of cloud. muffled thunder.”
Kathy Walker Quotes
“Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne.”
Merry Browne Quotes
“It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. -Charles Kuralt.”
Charles Kuralt Quotes
“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus.”
Epictetus Quotes
“Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius.”
Hans Margolius Quotes
“No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow.”
Ellen Glasgow Quotes
“Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius.”
Hans Margolius Quotes
“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.”
Marcel Proust Quotes
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.”
Martha Washington Quotes
“Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
“Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.”
Hans Margolius Quotes
“The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.”
Charles H. Perkhurst Quotes
“Where we've gotten mixed up is that we believe actions follow belief. But experience creates belief.. N. Smith -Rev Cecil Williams.”
Rev Cecil Williams Quotes
“... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Pearl S. Buck.”
Pearl S. Buck Quotes