Perception Quotes
Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.Perception
A Course In Miracles
Course on Forgiveness Based on Christianity Eastern Philosophy
To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Bergson, Henri L.
1859-1941 French Philosopher
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.
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Blake, William
1757-1827 British Poet Painter
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it creative observation. Creative viewing.
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Burroughs, William S.
1914-1997 American Writer
You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
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Cole, M. Shawn
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
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Confucius
BC 551-479 Chinese Ethical Teacher Philosopher
However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is --in other words, not a thing, but a think.
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Fitzgerald, Penelope
1916 British Author
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
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Margolius, Hans
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
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Neuharth, Al
American publisher Founder USA Today
We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
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Peguy, Charles
1873-1914 French Poet Philosopher
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
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Perkhurst, Charles H.
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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Repplier, Agnes
1858-1950 American Author Social Critic
Any perception can connect us to reality properly and fully. What we see doesn t have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.
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Trungpa, Chogyam