Perception Reality Quotes

• Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

  Alexis Carrel

  Reality, Perception, Intuition

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• Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Reality, Perception

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• Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.

  Gary Zukav

  Believe, Thinking, Reality

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• The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.

  Ray Dalio

  Reality, Media, Perception

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• 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.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Reality, Perception, Important

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• The media has enormous power. The media is undergoing huge changes now. It seemed like it's time to step back and look at how the media shapes our lives and our perceptions of reality.

  Thomas Hunt Morgan

  Reality, Media, Perception

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• If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 27, 2015

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• People see what they want to see.

  Red Barber

  Ignorance, Knowing, People

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• The dream you are living is your creation. It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
  You have the power to create hell, and you have the power to create heaven.
  Why not dream a different dream? Why not use your mind, your imagination, and your emotions to dream heaven?

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Reality, Imagination

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Philosophy

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• We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Views

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• I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true.

  Travis Walton

  Reality, People, Perception

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• People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality.

  Nhat Hanh

  Cutting, Reality, Break Through

  Various, Ledi Sayadaw, Bhikkhu Khantipalo, Nyanaponika Thera, Padmasiri de Silva (2012). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247”, p.90, Buddhist Publication Society

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• Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

  Jim Harrison

  Travel, Reality, Perception

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• To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Reality, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.781, Hamilton Books

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• Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Attitude, Reality, Emotional

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• If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Reality, Perception, Way

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• Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys the perception of reality. As we try to bend the world to accommodate our resentment, fear, and selfishness, we become less accurate in understanding the world. This eventually destroys our ability to cope successfully with life.

  Richard Walters

  Hurt, Reality, Understanding

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• How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

  Robin Hobb

  Dream, Reality, Perception

  Robin Hobb (2013). “The Complete Soldier Son Trilogy: Shaman’s Crossing, Forest Mage, Renegade’s Magic”, p.75, HarperCollins UK

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• The life you are living is your creation, your perception of reality that you can change at any time.

  Dawn Abraham

  Change, Lost Love, Reality

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• Knowledge builds on the past and has its place. Wisdom is beyond time. It's the direct perception of reality as it is. And in this direct seeing of what is lies the potential of transformation-a transformation that is not merely a redecoration of the past but a transformation of humanity that embodies the eternally new.

  H. E Davey

  Lying, Past, Reality

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• Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying to render what you see you are not entering into a transformative process. And that's what makes a good painting: the process of transforming and the willingness to leave reality behind.

  Susan Rothenberg

  Reality, Thinking, Interesting

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• ... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.

  Gabriel Orozco

  Art, Reality, Museums

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