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Perception Quotes
"The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish."
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"It's both a blessing and a curse to see a woman's beauty!"
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"Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless."
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"We live in a strange world where people don't try to know who we are, rather they go by, what they think we are!"
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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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"A snake bites your ankle.Recoiling, you scream.Fearing poison, your mind slips into a dream......where a man bites your ankle.Expecting no guile, 'Again' softly falls from your lips with a smile.Yet the man and the snake are the same.Your perception is only to blame."
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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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"It seemed natural; natural to the moment's peculiar reality that was sharply clear, but cut off from everything, immediate, but disconnected, like a bright island in a wall of fog, the heightened, unquestioning reality one feels when one is drunk."
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"When blackened night falls, darkness exists if one chooses to rely on sight as thy only guide."
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"We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in."
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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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"The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured."
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"What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?"
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"The more you look, the less you see."
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"Reality is not what we see, reality is what we think we see."
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"Perception meets you at the intersection of your beliefs and reality."
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"The landscape looks different from every blade of grass."
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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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"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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"You can see the whole entire world in the eyes of a person who knows how to simply stand there and take all of it into him but then you can look into the eyes of someone else and the whole entire world goes away and all that's left is you."
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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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"Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort."
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"There is no such thing as 'right' or 'wrong' in the world whatsoever. It is just the impurity of the vision. It is indeed illusion [mithyatva], it is indeed a poisoned vision."
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"Light wears out the eyes but does not wear out the soul."
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"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."
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"Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it."
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"Mind needs more than 3D perception to be able to see edge of the universe."
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"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."
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"It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to."
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"Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought."
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"We are not in the world, the world is inside us."
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"Eyes are a deaf man's ears. Ears are a blind man's eyes."
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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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"Every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly."
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"Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong."
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"Presence and AbsenceA certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence: I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence."
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"Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any other, always think about the hidden meanings of questions more than about the questions themselves."
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"Everybody loves comfort, but that is an illusion my friends."
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"What you think is the heart might well be another organ."
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"People are seen through the stained glass window of our imagination. ['The hidden sides of his character']"
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"Using two-dimensional lenses to perceive the multi-faceted world can limit your ability to observe the world more objectively."
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"Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it."
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"I can see better when i close my eyes; don't make much ado, that's my latest style of view."
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"What other people think is important to them. What you think has great importance to you."
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"Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty, we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind."
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