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Perception Quotes
"The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul."
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"Some are interested in the mysterious, but lose interest once they think they know you."
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"Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things."
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"Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him."
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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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"Not every one of us sees the beauty of the stars and innocence of the moon by looking at sky."
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"Ugliness sees ugliness, beauty sees beauty."
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"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."
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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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"My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn't accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard people's thoughts. Of course, she couldn't admit I was literally hearing people's thoughts because that just didn't fit into her world."
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"It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes."
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"We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis."
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"When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense."
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"Yet the motion of the saw has not faltered, as though it and the arm functioned in a tranquil conviction that rain was an illusion of the mind."
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"I do not like odd things until I can understand them."
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"All that matters is that your perception of reality is what you truly desire."
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"The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals."
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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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"Everyone is trying to impress everyone else, trying to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are."
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"Imagination can create lies that duals truths."
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"I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed."
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"She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast."
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"Blue is the most common eye color in Oria Province, but there is something different about his eyes and I'm not sure what it is. More depth? I wonder what he sees when he looks at me. If he seems to have depth to me, do I seem shallow and transparent to him?"
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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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"Time is an illusion-to orators."
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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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"Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about."
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"Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lot of times they don't understand what's happening. They see something they don't like and it upsets them-because they don't have the full story, aren't personally facing the problem, and don't know how much worse the alternative could be."
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"That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease."
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"Her eyes were celadon saucers but bottomless, of such great depth that she could take in the knowledge of whole worlds and have room in that gaze for still more."
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"I have met the devil - he is not!"
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"Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe."
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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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"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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"That's right," said Door. Her cheek lightly grazed and her dirty reddish hair was tangled; tangled but not matted. And her eyes...Richard realized that he could not tell what color her eyes were. They were not blue, or green, or brown, or gray; they reminded him of fire opals: there were burning greens and blues, and even reds and yellows that vanished and glinted as she moved."
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"It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings."
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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 same tongue that tastes a cube of sugar when it is placed in a small cup of water and appreciates it is the same tongue that tells the same cube of sugar how tasteless it is when it is placed in a large volume of water."
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"What I see is sacred."
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"What you feel is making sense could really be dramatized nonsense. So think again."
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"The darkness behind my closed eyelids was like the cloud-covered sky, but the gray was somewhat deeper. Every few minutes, someone would come and paint over the gray with a different-textured gray - one with a touch of gold or green or red. I was impressed with the variety of grays that existed. Human beings were so strange. All you had to do was sit still for ten minutes, and you could see this amazing variety of grays."
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"Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos."
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"It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words."
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"Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible."
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