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Perception Quotes


"Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous."


"What you see and what you listen to will determine how high you will go."


"Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless."


"Beautiful gifts sometimes come adorned in ugly wrapping."


"Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction."


"If someone says, "the Gnani Purush is happy in the 'Real' but happy or unhappy in the 'relative'", then I would say, "No, the Gnani Purush Knows the 'relative' as being the 'relative', and therefore He is happy in the relative as well."


"Some people live disconnected, in a world of their own. Their wishful thinking represents their sole veracity. But when the mirror smashes the reflection of their delusion, it will not falter to talk back. ['The day the mirror was talking back']"


"An ant can't define shape of an elephant solely from its' point of view.They have to unify all views. It's a way for ant to understand elephant.In order to understand true realities, men need to do mental blending."


"You look too pretty to be useful." "Truer words were never spoken."



"It is not good to make everyday decision based upon what we see and what other people are saying or thinking."


"The landscape looks different from every blade of grass."


"Close your eyes. Now see the world with your mind, and feel the joy of your magnificent life."


"What is reality today was but a dream and an imagination not that long ago."


"Each of your brains creates its own myth about the universe."


"Notwithstanding how good you are, you shall be perceived as bad by the masses when you take the extraordinary steps that lead to distinctiveness which the masses may regard as bad."


"Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it."



"Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things."


"Only the eye that sees can differentiate a flower from leaves."


"Our eyes are as open as much our minds are."


"He holds her with the strength of a million-man army, but with all the tenderness of her heart lying naked in the palms of his hands."


"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."


"Be careful with how you present yourself in the public, because most people will not hesitate to treat you in that exact manner."


"The creature was there, a curiously shaped creature no doubt, but all loathing had vanished clean out of his mind, so that neither then nor at any other time could he remember it, nor ever understand again why one should quarrel with an animal for having more legs or eyes than oneself."


"Your ears hear much, but your heart hears more. Your eyes see much, but your mind sees more. Your toungue says much, but your soul says more. Your feet travel much, but your imagination travels more. Your hands do much, but your mind does more."


"Those who look outside can only see an illusion. Those who look inside may see the reality."



"Ah, dear Jude; that's because you are like a totally deaf manobserving people listening to music. You say 'What are theyregarding? Nothing is there.' But something is."


"Close your eyes. Now see the world, not with your vision but with your feelings and passion."


"We never learn to value what is simple; what is difficult is worthy to us. But, the beauty of life is in the simplicity."



"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."


"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."


"There are so many beautiful lives with wrong 'colors'!"


"When we perceive aliens as a joke to be laughed at,they feel so pity for us on the success of their plans."


"With your mind alert and your eyes wide open, you will be better able to assess your space and your place for optimizing exchanges and your communication impressions."


"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?"


"The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held."


"Some call their mistake a discovery;to others, their mistake is a misfortune and to most people a mistake is a deviation from the acceptable. A mistake is a mistake depending on what we think it is."


"The deaf cannot hear wind, but can feel its touch. The blind cannot see the sun, but can feel its warmth."


"What you say about the world reflects more about you and your perception of the world than the world itself."


"The world is not outside of you. The world is inside you."


"Intuition feels the imperceptible things that unknown to mind."


"Well Hello Halo! It is human nature for us to make generalized judgments about a person using only a couple of traits. The "Expressivity Halo" Theory explains how we connect various personalities to specific facial expressions and assign assumptions about that person."


"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."


"Mind sees magic because it can be deceived when allowed by heart."


"The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves."


"She gave me this look " she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around."


"Perception meets you at the intersection of your beliefs and reality."


"People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour of their cloaks, but by the content of their words!"
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