Perception Quotes - Page 5

• Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Thrive, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.234

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• The thing itself is one; the images are many. What leads to a perceptive understanding of the thing is not the focus on one image, but the viewing of many images together.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Focus, Understanding, Together

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• Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Mean, Matter

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

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• To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

  Andre Breton

  Mean, Awareness

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• Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Men, Blind Love

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• Learn to walk in God’s perception of who you are, because yours is not good enough.

  Graham Cooke

  Not Good Enough, Walks, Who You Are

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• All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

  Immanuel Kant

  Knowledge, Understanding, Reason

  "Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant, (B 730), (1781; 1787).

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• It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

  Stephen Colbert

  Matter, Facts, Opinion

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

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• I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.

  Giordano Bruno

  Heaven, Afar, Fields

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

  Jose Saramago

  Order, Perspective, Waiting

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• No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

  Ansel Adams

  Confidence, Creativity, Men

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• We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

  Stephen Covey

  Lenses, Looks, World

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.7, Mango Media Inc.

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• Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Strong, Procrastination, Sight

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

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• Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Learning, Technology, Needs

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

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• I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

  Angelina Jolie

  Character, Hard Times, Play

  "Angelina Jolie on Her Insecurities & Finding Happiness". Interview With Hilary Rowland, urbanette.com.

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• My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

  Val Kilmer

  Done, Hard

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• You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Being Yourself, Teacher, Looks

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2001). “Talks with American Students”, p.68, Shambhala Publications

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• Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

  George Santayana

  Science, Common Sense, Development

  The Life of Reason: Reason in Science, Ch. 11

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• In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Years, Rely Upon

  The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1931) ch. 2

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• There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Children, Science

  "V 65: New Challenges for human communications, Volume 4". Book by International Center for the Typographic Arts, Southern Illinois University, 1965.

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• Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Encouragement, Eye, Discipline

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 15, 2013

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• In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Stars, Special, Today

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• 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.

  William S. Burroughs

  Creativity, Artist, People

  "New York library buys personal archives of Naked Lunch author" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2006.

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• It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

  Alexander Fleming

  Team, Science, Discovery

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• It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning.

  Mircea Eliade

  Destiny, Thinking, Would Be

  "The Little Book of Romanian Wisdom". Book by Diana Doroftei and Matthew Cross, 2011.

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