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Perception Quotes
"It is always easier to find fault and criticize than it is to find beauty and appreciation."
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"Reality depends a great deal upon one believing what he sees-or seeing what he believes. Either way."
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"A blind man sees with his cane, like all the rest of us."
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"Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought."
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"What I discovered this freak me out. That the people will check out a book with naked woman, but won't check out a book without this WHY??What are the differences?"
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"Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves."
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"This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That's why everything is exactly the wrong way around."
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"It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements."
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"So many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions."
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"What lies behind the innocent looks? What lies behind the kind words? What lies behind the gentle smiles? Do not remain on the surface of the things; go behind them so that you can compare the seen with the unseen, the surface with the depth to find out whether they are the same or not!"
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"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."
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"To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light."
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"We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself."
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
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"Eating a salad (in public) is an overweight person's attempt to appear in control."
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"Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl."
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"You perception of a person, place, or thing may not be accurate. Just because it looks good does not mean it is good and vice versa. Always be aware of your surroundings. Pay attention to the people, places, and things around you. Don't allow your misperception to put you in an uncomfortable situation."
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"The earliest bird gets the worm only if the worm is stupid enough to show up."
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"Then as for those who gaze upon many beautiful things but don't see the beautiful itself, and aren't even capable of following someone else who leads them to it, and upon many just things but not the just itself, and all the things like that, we'll claim that they accept the seeming of everything but discern nothing of what they have opinions about."
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"People see what they expect to see."
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"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."
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"Its like reproaching someone who has no ear for music because he's bored at a symphony concert. Is it fair to blame me because you ascribed to me qualities that I hadn't got? I never tried to deceive you by pretending I was anything I wasn't. I was just pretty and gay. You don't ask for a pearl necklace or a sable coat at a booth in a fair, you ask for a tin trumpet and a toy balloon."
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"Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure."
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"Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new."
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"The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it."
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"The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were inrepose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless."
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"Slowly gently night creeps up on you, more gentle than light, it helps you realize how much the light hinders you. In the darkness your senses learn when they should quit " in the embrace of the dark everything becomes what it really is. People fear the dark but unlike the light it does not lie to you. In the dark you can go where you long to be."
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"See not the face..but only the eyes, of the poker face."
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"The most beautiful road is the road you think it is the most beautiful road!"
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"I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach."
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"Beautiful gifts sometimes come adorned in ugly wrapping."
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"Worldly things (laukik) are perceived through the senses (indriya-gamya). That, which is beyond the world (alaukik), is perceived [through the knowledge which is] beyond the senses (atindriya-gamya)."
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"Distance does not define your destination, it is defined by your thoughts."
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"It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn't."
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"The new limitations are the human ones of perception."
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"To see more than a reflection requires us to filter what we see, to view the world with honest eyes."
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"Some are interested in the mysterious, but lose interest once they think they know you."
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"People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes."
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"I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267)."
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"The more you look, the less you see."
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"Well, there would be no sound if we shout on the background."
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"Reality is not what we see, reality is what we think we see."
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"Some people aren't really light-teethed, they're merely dark-skinned."
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"People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so."
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"If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don't have to believe it - especially if you have eyes."
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"Your EYES not only see everything around you AS IS, but also PROJECT what you wish look in this world!"
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"Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one."
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"Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter."
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"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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"Not every one of us sees the beauty of the stars and innocence of the moon by looking at sky."
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