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• Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sick, Disease, Facts

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• Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.

  William Wordsworth

  Mind, Littles

  William Wordsworth (1849). “The poetical works of William Wordsworth”, p.167

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• I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

  Ben Jonson

  Father, Men, Parent

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “Memoirs of Jonson, &c. Every man in his humour”, p.18

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• A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Drama, Criticism, Theatre

  'Tynan Right and Left' (1967) foreword

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• When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Eye, Body, Failing

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• Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that is the only way I can describe what I see. That is a proposition, a sentence, a fact; but what I perceive is not proposition, sentence, fact, but only an image which I make intelligible in part by means of a statement of fact. This statement is abstract; but what I see is concrete.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Morning, Spring, Mean

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• There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

  Bernard Malamud

  Dark, Self, Mystical Experiences

  Bernard Malamud (2003). “The Natural: A Novel”, p.94, Macmillan

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• I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

  Jack Dee

  Thinking, People, Cautiousness

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• Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Baby, Men, People

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• The more we learn about the wonders of our universe, the more clearly we are going to perceive the hand of God.

  Frank Borman

  Hands, Wonder, Universe

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• The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

  Cyril Connolly

  Nature, Ideas, Gains

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• Each person carries an entire world within himself, and everything exists twice: once the way it is, the other the way he perceives it with his own eyes and feelings.

  Janusz Korczak

  Eye, Feelings, Way

  Janusz Korczak (1998). “A Voice for the Child: The Inspirational Words of Janusz Korczak”, Thorsons Pub

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• Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.

  Jason Silva

  Creativity, Ideas, Patterns

  "On Creativity, Marijuana and 'a Butterfly Effect in Thought'" by Jason Silva, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

  Gene Robinson

  Moving, Government, Views

  "Gene Robinson, Gay Bishop, Sets Sights On D.C. As Retirement Looms" by Jeffrey Macdonald, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Solidarity is learned through 'contact' rather than 'concepts.' Students in the course of their formation, must let the gritty reality of this world into their lives, so they can learn to feel it, think about it critically, respond to its suffering and engage it constructively. They should learn to perceive, think, judge, choose and act for the rights of others, especially the disadvantaged and the oppressed.

  Peter Hans Kolvenbach

  Reality, Thinking, Rights

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• Most people perceive moderates as timid, middle-of-the-roaders, who can't take a stand.

  Rick Bayan

  People, Middle, Moderates

  "The Sweep: Vikings, voters and the charge of the Militant Middle" by Tom Foreman, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2010.

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• The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

  Dan Harmon

  People, Perception, Complaining

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• Whatever we perceive as good in the world has always endured, and it always will.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  World, Good In The World

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• The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Light, Color

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• Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof man, on the contrary, energises as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights or sounds something beyond them. It seizes and unites what the senses present to it; it grasps and forms what need not be seen or heard except in detail. It discerns in lines and colors, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not. It gives them a meaning, and invests them with an idea.

  John Henry Newman

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

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• While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .

  Hermann Broch

  Lying, Hatred, Strive

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• In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

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• You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Years, Age, Growing

  Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield (1954). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 November, 1785 to 22 June, 1786”

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• ... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.

  Mary McCarthy

  Average, Catholic, Religion

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• How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious of my own being; and that I myself am not my ideas, but somewhat else, a thinking, active principle that perceives, knows, wills, and operates about ideas?

  George Berkeley

  Thinking, Ideas, Perception

  George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.69

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