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Perception Quotes
"Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic."
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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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"A gloss is a total system of perception and language."
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"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
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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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"The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing."
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"Fear and paranoia create many of our worldly struggles. We get something in our minds and our distorted perception sculpts the reality of what we see. Even though what we see isn't really there, we tend to act as if it is. We then begin to put people and things into boxes, labeling them, and limiting them due to our fears."
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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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"Outer beauty you see with your eyes, but inner beauty you only see with your heart."
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"These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know."
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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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"Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality."
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"Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions."
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"There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt."
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"People say not to judge a book by its cover, but what if you somehow read the inside of the book without seeing the cover first? And what if you really liked what was inside the book? Of course when you go to close the book and are about to see the cover for the first time, you hope it's something you'll find attractive. Because who wants an incredibly written book sitting on their bookshelf if they have to stare at a shitty cover?"
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"Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction."
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"One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun."
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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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"Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
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"You may not like what I see but I don't like what you do."
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"Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly."
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"Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites."
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"A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes."
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"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking."
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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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"I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to."
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"Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy."
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"The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition."
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"If your eyes are blinded with your worries you cannot see the beauty of the sunset."
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"Sunglasses are the best invention of world.Its hide the eyes which speak more then lips."
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"Sometimes a person's first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation."
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"Q: What is wrong with the world?A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves."
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"When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it."
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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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"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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"Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception."
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"The really explicit phrase is doors of perception."
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"The illusion is reality. The only contradiction is the observer."
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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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"We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception."
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"You are very kind," he said. "Very wrong, but very kind."
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"A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception."
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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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"The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either."
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"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans."
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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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"How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception."
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