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Perception Quotes
"Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted."
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"When you have orientational awareness, your perceptions and impressions are based on location and proximity. Orientation may imply hierarchy, position, and prestige, or be the result of habits, traditions, and perceptions."
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"I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage."
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"I had try to tell the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very clean and cold and I could not tell it, as I cannot tell it now. But if you have had it you know."
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"The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves."
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"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."
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"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, not the mirror."
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"We each project to others a reflection of the world which includes our choices of perception."
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"For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!"
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"Finding beauty in the common is the sign of a gifted mind."
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"Changing your perception will alter your interpretations and therefore, your reality. If you feel like you're hitting a wall because you simply don't understand something, or another person has a different approach, keep your mind open and willing to reinterpret it with fresh eyes, more information, a change in position, or a new perspective."
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"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."
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"That was the problem with the outside world, the human world. The whole thing was made up puzzles, of a language she didn't quite speak."
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"Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him."
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"When I look into my past, only then can I see the trending future."
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"You don't need to look at the beauty to feel the love."
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"Each of your brains creates its own myth about the universe."
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"We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful."
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"All those we can love, think, or imagine are more real than those we can see or have seen."
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"The outer expression of a person often reflects the inner perception and deeper beliefs."
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"If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world."
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"Our eyes are as open as much our minds are."
"In simple terms, what you perceive as real, is actually a neurological reconstruction or simulation of the actual real thing. It's not as simple as saying, we see as it is. Actually we do not ever see as it is."
"Not how well you see in a clear weather but how well you see in a foggy weather determines how better you are than others!"
"Close your eyes. Now see the world, not with your vision but with your feelings and passion."
"You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
"What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That's how the human brain works."
"Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception."
"Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do."
"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."
"Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye."
"We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman."
"There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black - in itself."
"When perception will change then today's sadness could be tomorrow's happiness."
"That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities, now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way."
"A true religious person should not think that "my religion alone is the right path and other religions are false. Other religions are also so many paths leading to the same domain of transcendental bliss. Likewise, no person should think "my perception of the reality is the only absolute reality, and all others' are false, because each human brain has its own unique way of perceiving the reality."
"Since non-verbal signals have five times the impact of verbal signals, paying attention to the image you are projecting is crucial to your first impressions."
"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."
"What you say reflects how you feel about the world."
"What you see is not true, but what you think about what you see is the truth."
"When you are seeing a person, you are not really seeing him. You are seeing his reflection through the mirror of your mind."
"If you want to see beauty, look with love and appreciation and you will find it."
"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour."
"You know a man is interesting when you forget to notice how expensive - or cheap - his clothes are."
"Illusion is a false perception but delusion is a fixed false belief."
"Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things."
"Even if everybody is looking at the same light bulb, the unique composition of an individual will dictate how they interpret and see things. Some people will only see things with their left eye (mind/moon), while others will use only their right (heart/sun). Some people are completely void of light and repel it immediately. For instance, a beetle will chase after an opening of light, while a cockroach will scatter at a crack of it. How are we different than the insects? Nobody is purely good or purely evil. Most of us are in-between. There are moths that explore the day and butterflies that play at night. Polarity is an integral part of nature - human or not human."
"It is not good to make everyday decision based upon what we see and what other people are saying or thinking."
"Everything is interconnected. My readings of classical authors, who never speaks of sunsets, have made many sunsets intelligible to me, in all their colors. There is a relationship between syntactical competence, by which we distinguish the values of beings, sounds and shapes, and the capacity to perceive when the blue of the sky is actually green, and how much yellow is in the blue green of the sky. It comes down to the same thing - the capacity to distinguish and to discriminate. There is no enduring emotion without syntax. Immortality depends of the grammarians."
"Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act."
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