PERCEPTION QUOTES

quotations about perception

Perception quote

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

WILLIAM BLAKE

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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It is not hard to see things as they really are, it is simply a matter of tearing down walls, ridding oneself of defenses and presumption, rendering oneself vulnerable, an idiot, a fool. But it is not easy to see things as they really are, because it is painful, it is real, it requires response, it's an incredible commitment. To go nine-tenths of the way is to suffer at every moment utter madness. To go all the way is to become sane.

PAUL WILLIAMS

Das Energi


It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

ANAÏS NIN

attributed, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

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When we become fixed in our perceptions, we lose our ability to fly.

YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE

Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom

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It's impossible to make a judgment as to which perceptions are real, and which are false, without assuming your personal view to be more valid than your neighbor's.

LAURA TILLMAN

The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts


There are children playing in the street 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

attributed, Pearls of Wisdom

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People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth.

ROBERTO BOLAÑO

2666

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Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

HANS MARGOLIUS

attributed, A Toolbox for Humanity

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Perceptions about people can be powerful. They can also be powerfully wrong.

CRAIG DRESANG

"Yolo Hospice: Perceptions beyond our circumstances", The Davis Enterprise, April 17, 2016


What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.

C. S. LEWIS

The Magician's Nephew

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Your opinion is your opinion, your perception is your perception--do not confuse them with "facts" or "truth". Wars have been fought and millions have been killed because of the inability of men to understand the idea that EVERYBODY has a different viewpoint.

JOHN MOORE

Quotations for Martial Artists

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While intuitively, we may believe that consciousness is a continual flow, there's considerable evidence to suggest that our conscious perception comes in discrete snapshots, like distinct images flicking quickly through a film reel.

OLIVIA GOLDHILL

"A 'time slice' theory of consciousness suggests we're not continually aware of our surroundings", Quartz, April 18, 2016


Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Three Guineas

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Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not.

ANONYMOUS

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All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man or from generation to generation, at least not permanently. It is the perception, the knowledge and understanding of them, their ideas in the Platonic sense, that are passed along. Everything social can have existence only through mentality.

ALFRED L. KROEBER

The Superorganic

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No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is -- in other words, not a thing, but a think.

PENELOPE FITZGERALD

The Gate of Angels

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

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Studies in Pessimism

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

ROBERTSON DAVIES

attributed, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotes

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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

MARCEL PROUST

"The Captive", Remembrance of Things Past

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