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Perception Quotes
"I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa."
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"Staring at the light of another blinds the view of our own."
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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 must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject."
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"We do not actually know other people, we only know our judgements."
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"A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes."
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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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"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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"A gloss is a total system of perception and language."
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"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see."
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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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"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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"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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"There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt."
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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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"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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"Sometimes a person's first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation."
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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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"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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"If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me."
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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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"You may not like what I see but I don't like what you do."
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"Outer beauty you see with your eyes, but inner beauty you only see with your heart."
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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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"The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either."
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"Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color."
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"Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic."
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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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"Our understanding is correlative to our perception."
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"Sunglasses are the best invention of world.Its hide the eyes which speak more then lips."
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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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"I recollect it was settled by general consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, and had nothing objectionable in it, but a tiger or two, and a little heat in the warm part of the day."
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"It's a queer business, making oneself blind."
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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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"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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"But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility."
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"In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face."
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"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking."
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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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"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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"While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him."
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"The illusion is reality. The only contradiction is the observer."
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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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"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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