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Perception Quotes
"You could see her thoughts swimming around in her eyes, like fish - some bright, some dark, some fast, quick, some slow and easy, and sometimes, like when she looked up where Earth was, being nothing but colour and nothing else."
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"Reframing encourages you to say, 'Let's look at this another way.' By changing the frame around a situation, you not only change your perception of it, but its meaning for you as well. If you were to take one painting and view it in three different frames, each combination would offer a completely different presentation. Your perceptions work the same way."
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"Two people can illustrate crudity to you.The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one."
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"He noticed that he felt calmer now she was here, still in that grey dress with her dowdy hat, the air around her redolent with orchid oil. Perhaps all women in England had this effect. Perhaps they all smelled of flowers and exuded a calm and measured purpose. He couldn't remember."
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"Be careful with how you present yourself in the public, because most people will not hesitate to treat you in that exact manner."
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"You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there."
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"The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals."
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"Everyone has beautiful eyes but they often see ugliness not the beauty of life."
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"The confusion is always created within the illusion."
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"Everyone is trying to impress everyone else, trying to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are."
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"People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it."
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"I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed."
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"It's in my head now. It's a memory. No camera could have captured what I saw and felt."
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"But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters."
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"We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision."
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"Life is not what happens to us, it is what we perceive has happened to us."
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"Lord Vetinari in a meeting: "what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That's where the things were that they hoped he didn't know and didn't want him to find out."
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"A beautiful gift does not decrease in value because it is wrapped in ugly paper."
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"Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good."
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"Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking."
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"Materialistic perception of life makes us spiritually shortsighted."
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"Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself."
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"There are so many beautiful lives with wrong 'colors'!"
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"No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes."
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"When we perceive aliens as a joke to be laughed at,they feel so pity for us on the success of their plans."
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"Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control."
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"Life is an illusion which wisely prevents you from seeing yourself fully."
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"Each man lives in many worlds within different life.Mind can only see world in which it lived and located."
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"The whole world reacts negatively to loss. What wrong has loss done? If you ask God if he has any profit or loss, then God would tell you, 'You are looking at it from an illusory viewpoint, you are seeing 'relative' and that is why you see everything as a profit or loss. I see through Real knowledge'."
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"I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that."
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"The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous."
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"I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several."
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"Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented."
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"There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?"
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"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
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"What you say about the world reflects more about you and your perception of the world than the world itself."
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"As long as your mind has the contemplation 'the tiger is a violent animal', it will remain violent. And if your contemplation is, 'the tiger is a pure soul', then it will not remain violent. Everything is possible."
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"Intuition feels the imperceptible things that unknown to mind."
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"I found a way to see in the dark. Close your eyes."
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"It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings."
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"We will judge others based on their behaviors with little to no understanding or regard for their beliefs or values-standards we may not know, nor typically see. When we do this, things can be taken completely out of context because we are assessing their behavior against our expectations, which are produced from our own personal value system."
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"The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is the truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe. In this case it's a great deal easier to believe Bertha Dorset's story than mine, because she has a big house and an opera box, and it's convenient to be on good terms with her."
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"When someone picks the Gnani Purush's [the enlightened one's] 'pocket', how does the Gnani Purush'' look at it? "Very well! This amount is now credited to my account! Money spent for the home is money down the drain. How can anyone 'see' this [fact] with the narrow inner intent of 'mine and yours'? With an all encompassing [broader] intent, one will see 'as it is', that is called 'Gnan' [Knowledge]."
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"All the pains in this world are assumed pains. It is 'wrong belief'! People have the illusion of pain. This illusion is being experienced. What was seen with the eyes is not being experienced. To have illusory experience means to spend the entire night 'dying' in the fear of ghosts. That is what it is."
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"You cannot have a beautiful life if you always focus on ugliness in others."
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"Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous."
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"Mind sees magic because it can be deceived when allowed by heart."
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