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Perception Quotes
!["When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ['Trompe le pied.']"](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)
"When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ['Trompe le pied.']"
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"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."
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"Not all people are 'people', some are more and some are less. But only those who listen intently with their hearts will recognise them for what they are."
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"The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur."
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"Your thoughts, beliefs, and interpretations initiate and largely determine how you experience your reality."
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"People only picked the pretty, sweet-smelling flowers. The ones with thorns were left alone."
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"I do not like odd things until I can understand them."
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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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"We always think that God's presence is always provided to fix our problems but what if God's presence is more about fixing your perspectives? So that you will have a new way to see your problems. If you didn't make your bed before leaving home this morning, no angel is going to make your bed for you, it is still going to be as you left it till you come back."
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"Just look at the fellow, standing there like a bloody Greek god. Do you think she chose him because of his intellect?"I graduated from Cambridge, Christopher said acidly. "Should I have brought my diploma?"
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"Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth."
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"Knowing it and seeing it are two different things."
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"All that matters is that your perception of reality is what you truly desire."
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"I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding."
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"We don't see things. We see reflections of our feelings and perceptions."
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"You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours."
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"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!"
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"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."
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"When you read between the lines, you must have bloody good eyesight because I can't see a bloody thing!"
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"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."
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"Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval."
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"What you focus upon will always tend to rule what is experienced."
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"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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"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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"So many people concentrate on looks, but the invisible is sacred."
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"She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast."
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"You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking."
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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 are who people think we are. The reality is irrelevant."
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"Ah, dear Jude; that's because you are like a totally deaf manobserving people listening to music. You say 'What are theyregarding? Nothing is there.' But something is."
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"REFLECTIONS OF A MIRRORBeautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful,Even if the surface is ugly.Truthful is he who says what is true,Even if the truth is ugly.Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior,Without first weighing the interior.And ugly is the man who judges harshly what he sees looking out,Without first judging what he sees in the mirror."
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"Why is the eye considered a reliable judge when it knows nothing of love or intelligence?"
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"I used to wonder about the fake pictures that came in frames you buy at the store-ladies with smooth brown hair and show-me smiles, grapefruit-headed babies on their sibling's knees-people who in real life probably were strangers brought together by a talent scout to be a phony family.Maybe it's not so different from real photos, after all."
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"Perceptions may not be true, but its true for YOU!"
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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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"Time is an illusion-to orators."
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"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"
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"The air moved slowly around his body, somehow tangible, gold flaked, every dust mote a lantern."
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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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"The world that we live in is made up of two phases, the real world and the fantasy world."
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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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"There are times in life that we ascribe qualities or traits to other people that are inaccurate or fail to recognize other aspects of their being because we are emotionally invested in that person fulfilling a specific role in our life. When we claim that the other person changed it is not so much that they altered their core composition, but we now must admit to ourselves that our original perception of them was imprecise."
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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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