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Perception Quotes
"Staring at the light of another blinds the view of our own."
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"Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows."
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"Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all."
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"We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception."
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"We were just standing there, and her eyes were so interesting. Not in the usual way of being interesting, like being extremely blue or extremely big or flanked by obscenely long lashes or anything."
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"If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me."
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"Every person sees the world through lenses of his or her own design-individual goggles that alter focus and perspective as desired. For those who wish the world to be dark and ugly and unapproachable, it is. But for those who wish it to be beautiful, it is a garden playground blooming with bright, happy colors."
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"Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up."
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"In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli."
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"Disappointment focuses on 'what is not,' and completely misses the far greater reality of 'what now is."
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"I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate."
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"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."
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"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."
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"Everything seems so small, so trivial, when you're on the right altitude."
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"The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie."
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"Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites."
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"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge."
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"Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies."
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"Our understanding is correlative to our perception."
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"Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy."
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"If your eyes are blinded with your worries you cannot see the beauty of the sunset."
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"When one says, I won't judge you for that, what they're really saying is, I am judging you for that. Think about it. If you walk into my house and I tell you, "I won't judge you for wearing those pants," what am I really saying?"
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"The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception."
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"To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."
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"There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt."
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"A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses."
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"The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges."
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"Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic."
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"The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye."
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"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is."
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"It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide."
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"The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing."
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"The really explicit phrase is doors of perception."
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"Chromatacia society ruled by a colortocracy social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see."
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"If you perceive right you receive right. If you perceive wrong you receive wrong."
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"If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast."
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"Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively."
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"White is not always light and black is not always dark."
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"I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose."
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"We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind."
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"I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold."
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"The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental."
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"He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it."
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"So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality."
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"Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality."
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"Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth."
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"Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that."
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