Perception Quotes

• Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

  Irving Berlin

  Life, Veterans Day, Attitude

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• The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

  Robertson Davies

  Educational, Knowledge, Eye

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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• Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

  Camille Pissarro

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mirrors, Mind, Looks

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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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• Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Truth, Intelligent, Greatness

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• 'One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever.'

  Robert Holden

  Heart, Forever, Leap Of Faith

  Robert Holden (2006). “Shift Happens!: Powerful Ways to Transform Your Life”

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

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• There is no truth. There is only perception.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Truth, Perspective, Favourite

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• Not every person is going to understand you and that's okay. They have a right to their opinion and you have every right to ignore it.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

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• Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Life, Acceptance, Intelligent

  "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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  It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

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• We look at the world through our likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, opinions and judgments. We want everyone to behave as we think they should; otherwise we get agitated. But we are here to accept the world as it is, even as we work to make it better.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Change, Hope, Fear

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  If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "A Memorable Fancy" plate 14 (1790 - 1793). Inspired the title of Aldous Huxley's 1954 book about drug experimentation, The Doors of Perception, which in turn inspired the name of the 1960s rock group The Doors.

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• People only see what they are prepared to see.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.514, Harvard University Press

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• Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

  Stephen Colbert

  Matter, Facts, Certainty

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

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• Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Science, Men

  Studies in Pessimism "Psychological Observations" (1851) (translation by T. Bailey Saunders)

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  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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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, Way, Wells

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• Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of all Life.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Eye, Oneness, Vision

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “Bowl of Saki”, p.142, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

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• People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention.

  Keri Hilson

  Attitude, People, Attention

  FaceBook post by Keri Hilson from Sep 28, 2010

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• Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

  Fred Rogers

  Kids, Anti Bullying, Thinking

  Fred Rogers (2003). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

  Tom Robbins

  Looks, World, Ability

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• Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Happiness, Education

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 25, 2015

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• The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.

  Ralph Linton

  Water, Would Be, Lasts

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