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Perception Quotes


"Close your eyes to see the world with your imaginative mind."


"Light wears out the eyes but does not wear out the soul."


"It is not important what you see, but it is important the way you see it."


"Sunglasses are the best invention of world.Its hide the eyes which speak more then lips."


"If you look for beauty, you will find it."


"Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision."


"Notwithstanding how good you are, you shall be perceived as bad by the masses when you take the extraordinary steps that lead to distinctiveness which the masses may regard as bad."


"Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it."


"Mind needs more than 3D perception to be able to see edge of the universe."


"Some people are farsighted and some people are nearsighted. In the mind and in the heart. A farsighted person forgets your magic the closer that you get to them; the nearsighted person sees your magic more and more, the closer and closer that you become to them. You've got to find the nearsighted people. That's just a rule in life. And you've got to be one, too."



"It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to."



"The paramanus [indivisible atoms] of mind-speech and body are effective. That is why things appear as good or bad. It shows good as being bad and bad as being good. And because of that, opinions are formed. The parmanus [indivisible atoms] of mind-speech-body themselves express opinions."


"Reality and fantasy are not two separate spheres but one whole. They are like a world's atmosphere-reality behaving as a low front, fantasy a high front. Each remains somewhat distinguishable and yet they swirl and join, affecting and manipulating the other. One cannot perceive where reality ends and fantasy begins, but life would grow stagnant and die without the influence of both."


"What you focus on gets prettier, what you love gets closer."


"We are not in the world, the world is inside us."


"Eyes are a deaf man's ears. Ears are a blind man's eyes."


"If your life is founded on what you can see then your success will be insignificant and very brief."


"All shoes have value but shoes do not have same value."


"Sometimes, if you get too close to a subject you can miss what's most important."


"Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting or knowledgeable, some people do that because they find you boring or ignorant."


"Every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly."


"The world we create in our minds shapes the ultimate reality where we live."


"Your attention is so sacred that if you truly look for beauty and grace, you will find it in everything."


"I tend to think my eye's vision is still 20/20, because they mind their own business."


"Everybody loves comfort, but that is an illusion my friends."


"What you think is the heart might well be another organ."


"Time, Eddie had decided during this period, was in large part created by external events. When a lot of interesting shit was happening, time seemed to go by fast. If you got stuck with nothing but the usual boring shit, it slowed down. And when everything stopped happening, time apparently quit altogether. Just packed up and went to Coney Island. Weird but true."


"You could see her thoughts swimming around in her eyes, like fish - some bright, some dark, some fast, quick, some slow and easy, and sometimes, like when she looked up where Earth was, being nothing but colour and nothing else."


"I can see better when i close my eyes; don't make much ado, that's my latest style of view."


"He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking."


"What other people think is important to them. What you think has great importance to you."



"Some of the things he's said over the past few days are starting to make sense, and I begin to feel more and more like the people I despise. He told me outright that he would answer anything if I just asked, yet I chose to believe the rumours about him instead. No wonder he was so irritated with me. I was treating him just like everyone else treats me."


"Reframing encourages you to say, 'Let's look at this another way.' By changing the frame around a situation, you not only change your perception of it, but its meaning for you as well. If you were to take one painting and view it in three different frames, each combination would offer a completely different presentation. Your perceptions work the same way."


"What you expect, it will find the way to appear."


"Your thoughts, beliefs, and interpretations initiate and largely determine how you experience your reality."



"I do not like odd things until I can understand them."


"You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there."


"All that matters is that your perception of reality is what you truly desire."


"I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding."


"We don't see things. We see reflections of our feelings and perceptions."


"Everyone has beautiful eyes but they often see ugliness not the beauty of life."


"You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours."


"When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!"


"The confusion is always created within the illusion."


"There is something great in whatever you look at. Many people look but few people see;to leave a distinctive footprint, do not just look but see for seeing will make you different."


"When you read between the lines, you must have bloody good eyesight because I can't see a bloody thing!"


"They were making a riotous noise, but it was much more like music - rather advanced music which you don't quite take in at the first hearing - than birds' songs ever are in our world."


"Eyes can't sense a smell of rain before it drops.Mind can't see event of future before it happens."


"The creature was there, a curiously shaped creature no doubt, but all loathing had vanished clean out of his mind, so that neither then nor at any other time could he remember it, nor ever understand again why one should quarrel with an animal for having more legs or eyes than oneself."
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