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Perception Quotes
"Time stood still so she learnt to alter her focus."
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"Imagination can create lies that duals truths."
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"We perceive the world through the rear window of life, observe all the puzzles and little pieces of our existence and assemble them in a comprehensive pattern. This allows us to reassess and evaluate our world view. ['Waiting for the pieces to fall into place']"
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"Your ears hear much, but your heart hears more. Your eyes see much, but your mind sees more. Your toungue says much, but your soul says more. Your feet travel much, but your imagination travels more. Your hands do much, but your mind does more."
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"To see anything other than 'as it is' - that is called the world."
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"Life is not what happens to us, it is what we perceive has happened to us."
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"I see your picture and in that picture I didn't see you."
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"Those who look outside can only see an illusion. Those who look inside may see the reality."
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"We do not actually know other nations, we only know our judgements."
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"We see the world as we are."
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"Your perspectives change your realities."
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"Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another."
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"Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull."
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"There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you want to have a bath. With other men it's nice. It helps you know you're beautiful."
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"We never learn to value what is simple; what is difficult is worthy to us. But, the beauty of life is in the simplicity."
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"Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of preconception that helped us feel safe in whatever views or assumptions we are having."
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"All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye."
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"I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?"
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"It is to our own detriment that we underestimate the might of small and simple things."
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"You are received the way you present yourself."
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"Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about."
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"Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good."
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"You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip."
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"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few."
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"Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity."
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"To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended directly and unconditionally by Mind at Large-- this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual."
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"Not until you change your lens, true beauty shall always look ugly to you!"
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"I have met the devil - he is not!"
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"The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth."
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"What you expect, it will happen."
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"People don't believe what is true but believes what they hear regularly."
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"There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face."
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"Maya (deceit) means that one cannot see the nature of things as they are but sees them in a different form."
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"The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye."
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"The problem is not in the sugar when it tastes bitter, the problem is with the tongue."
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"Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time."
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"There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people."
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"It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary."
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"What you see and what you focus on has a profound impact on your behaviour."
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"Beauty is only there when you have the ability to see and appreciate it."
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"A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens."
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"A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out."
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"The way you separate Reality from Imagination is the number of bandages you have to use."
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"I know everything I need to about a person by their hands. Eyes may be the window to ones soul but hands disclose the being."
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"Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and automatically subordinated to the concept. Interest in space is diminished and interest in time falls almost to zero."
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"Until you see beauty everywhere, in every face, until then, you are blind."
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"Because a spoon is made of gold does not change the soup's taste."
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"Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented."
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"I think poverty is not the worst thing in the world, blindness is, because blind people cannot see your beauty."
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