Perception Quotes - Page 8

Sometimes we must forge distance to gauge clarity in our vision and perception.

Sometimes the heart can hear what the ears do not.

Maybe from as early as when you're five or six, there's been a whisper going at the back of your head, saying: “One day, maybe not so long from now, you'll get to know how it feels.” So you're waiting, even if you don't quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realise that you really are different to them; that there are people out there, like Madame, who don't hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you – of how you were brought into this world and why – and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs. The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange.

Kazuo Ishiguro

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Perception of one's life journey does not, always or necessarily, have to be judged as good or bad. It certainly demands that one take responsibility for all aspects of it, however.

T.F. Hodge

Accumulated experience always alters perception of the past.

Siri Hustvedt

Perception is reality to the one in the experience.

Danielle Bernock

Choice-Judgement.Black coffee acidon an empty stomach.Perception.Cool, clear water.

Keelie Breanna

Happiness does not depend on a possession. Happiness depends on action and perception.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness comes from action, not from reaction. It is a feeling, not the success, but the perception.

Debasish Mridha

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

Pascal Mercier

Even the right is wrong from the other side.

M.F. Moonzajer

Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.

Wally Lamb

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

Criss Jami

Choice and perception are closely linked. They are unique, personal and emotional.

Fennel Hudson

To see more than a reflection requires us to filter what we see, to view the world with honest eyes.

Fennel Hudson

Do you know what the difference is between knowing a bird and knowing about a bird?

Lionel Suggs

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

C.G. Jung

What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?" I speculated such a suggestion could be seen as a serious deviancy. Melphi seemed delited. "Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Melphi relplied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.

David Mitchell

We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Love is the perception of perfection beyond the protection of our projection.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The shortest interval between two points is the awareness that they are not two.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Through mastering the means of perception, the promise of who you are in physical form is opened with an increasing opportunity for fulfilment.

Georgi Y. Johnson

We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead — like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe — far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.

David Eagleman

Most people like mirrors; what they do not like, is people, who are mirrors.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Its not the eyes, that makes the visualization of the external world possible, but its the perception out of the awareness field. Your eyes are the same, but you view two person differently.

Roshan Sharma

Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull.

Abhijit Naskar

Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves.

Abhijit Naskar

Every living creature on this planet, has a conscious subjective perspective of the world. The plants may seem to us as standing indifferent to the human sufferings, but even they have their own unique mental universe. They have their own way of interacting with the environment.

Abhijit Naskar

Our mistakes rewire our brain and open up new gateways of perception.

Abhijit Naskar

Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself.

Abhijit Naskar

There are no higher levels of consciousness, there are only different ways of perceiving things.

Marty Rubin

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

H. Rider Haggard

Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.

Shannon L. Alder

In any case, you can't have effective allegory in times when people are swept this way and that by momentary convictions, because everyone will read it differently. You can't indicate moral values when morality changes with what is being done, because there is no accepted basis of judgment. And you cannot show the operation of grace when grace is cut off from nature or when the very possibility of grace is denied, because no one will have the least idea of what you are about.

Flannery O'Connor

I know that mirrors give us a false sense of confidence.” I continued. “The reflection that we see everyday has nothing to do with how others see us. The glass lies.

Rasmenia Massoud

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

Criss Jami

All continuous suffering, is self inflicted.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

All I want to convey to anyone who is suffering while they're young is that sometimes you get a reprieve when you're older. Maybe it's just your perception that changes, but somehow it eases up, because life ebbs and flows. When you're ebbing, maybe you're strengthening your perspective of the world. And when you're flowing, maybe you can use everything to create, to write, to sing, act, and eventually stand taller and see farther.

Cyndi Lauper

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

T.S Eliot

While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.

John Williams

I know how mirrors work. They're all in league with the cosmetics trade. They tell a woman lies. Drawing her gaze from one imagined flaw to another, until all she sees is a constellation of imperfections. If you could get outside yourself, borrow my eyes for just an instant... There is only beauty.

Tessa Dare

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

Edward de Bono

Secularity is a way of being dependent on the responses of our milieu. The secular or false self is the self which is fabricated, as Thomas Merton says, by social compulsions. 'Compulsive' is indeed the best adjective for the false self. It points to the need for ongoing and increasing affirmation. Who am I? I am the one who is liked, praised, admired, disliked, hated or despised. Whether I am a pianist, a businessman or a minister, what matters is how I am perceived by my world. If being busy is a good thing, then I must be busy. If having money is a sign of real freedom, then I must claim my money. If knowing many people proves my importance, I will have to make the necessary contacts. The compulsion manifests itself in the lurking fear of failure and the steady urge to prevent this by gathering more of the same - more work, more money, more friends.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

It’s probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are. (413)

Victoria Moran

I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people that lies are doors that opens up to truth. Either you accept the lie, or you run away from it, thus, eliminating the meaning behind it, and what is could have accomplished.

Lionel Suggs

Life only remains complex with the individual perspective. Individual perspective cannot think beyond itself while life has to consider the perspective of each and every individual.

Roshan Sharma

You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller.

Kathryn Davis

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl

Miranda July

An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the “other” world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we are not able to deal with the fragmentation of our self and assess the deconstruction of our identity, a corny incident could easily capsize our being. A misinterpretation of facts and expectations may perturb our awareness and unsettle our perception. When “I” and “me” don’t get along very well, the road to oneness may be very often bumpy. (“Alors, tout a basculé”)

Erik Pevernagie

Your inability to see the wisdom in someone else is not a reflection on their lack of perspicacity, it is a reflection on yours.

Ilyas Kassam

Happiness is an inner perception, inner joyfulness. We are happy when we express our kindness unconditionally. We are happy when we love some one unconditionally. By becoming the source of happiness for some one we become happy. Happiness is the purpose of every creation.

Debasish Mridha

What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what awoke you? Are bonsai cruel? Do you love what you love, or just the feeling? Your earliest memories: do you look through your young eyes, or look at your young self? Which feels worse: to know that there are people who do more with less talent, or that there are people with more talent? Do you walk on moving walkways? Should it make any difference that you knew it was wrong �as you were doing it? Would you trade actual intelligence for the perception of being smarter? Why does it bother you when someone at the next table is having a conversation on a cell phone? How many years of your life would you trade for the greatest month of your life? What would you tell your father, if it were possible? Which is changing faster, your body, or your mind? Is it cruel to tell an old person his prognosis? Are you in any way angry at your phone? When you pass �a storefront, do you look at what’s inside, look at your reflection, or neither? Is there anything you would die for if no one could ever know you died for it? If you could be assured that money wouldn’t make �you any small bit happier, would you still want more money? What has �been irrevocably spoiled for you? If your deepest secret became public, �would you be forgiven? Is your best friend your kindest friend? Is it in any way cruel to give a dog a name? Is there anything you feel a need to confess? You know it’s a “murder of crows” and a “wake of buzzards” but it’s a what of ravens, again? What is it about death that you’re �afraid of? How does it make you feel to know that it’s an “unkindness �of ravens”?

Jonathan Safran Foer

We can’t undo an action, but we can redo or change our perception.

Debasish Mridha M.D.

We see eternity through a microscopic window of time.

Debasish Mridha

The sacred stillness of your brilliant hearthas as the myriad wonders masqueraded.But if you knew this secret from the start,then you'd have quit this Game before you played it.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.

Amy Neftzger

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

W.B. Yeats

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