Top 100 Quotes About Perceive
#1. Only those who are spiritual perceive the reality of the spiritual foe and hence engage in battle. Such warfare is not fought with arms of the flesh. Because the conflict is spiritual so must the weapons.
Watchman Nee
#2. I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target.
John McAfee
#3. Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.
Melissa V. Harris-Perry
#4. Normal is how you perceive normal, not what others tell you is normal.
Sean Thomas
#5. Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.
Damon Galgut
#6. What is good hair? It can be anything to anyone. Good hair is healthy hair, whatever you perceive that to be.
Isaiah Mustafa
#9. Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.
Don Miguel Ruiz
#10. The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.
George Washington
#11. Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.
Gautama Buddha
#13. Those who perceive in themselves ... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
Pope John Paul II
#14. When I had challenges, it taught me to be more on top of it for the future. Things go wrong all the time when you're running your own business, but it's how you perceive it and deal with it that matters.
Lori Greiner
#15. Madness is freedom and some may only perceive its Insanity.
J. Limbu
#16. The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else to perceive in it the emotions you have invested in it. Once this is understood, all will be well.
Joyce Carol Oates
#17. This hill, though high, I covet to ascend;
The difficulty will not me offend.
For I perceive the way to life lies here.
Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.
Better, though difficult, the right way to go,
Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.
John Bunyan
#18. We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action.
J. D. Bernal
#19. Sailing through everyday reality is a breath taking journey, where much of what we perceive about humanity does not seem to be right.
Sameh Elsayed
#20. People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.
Jonah Lehrer
#21. Remember, the way we perceive ourselves is often nothing like what we really are," he said.
R.K. Ryals
#22. None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#23. Your so-called "self" is a composite superimposed on the activity of many competing subpersonalities or agents. What you perceive as your consciousness is a string of temporary heroes rising above those they have defeated. And so you seek out heroes in the common story of your race.
Paul McAuley
#24. When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.
Arthur Koestler
#25. Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#26. WE DIE. You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this central fact of human existence colors our world and how we perceive ourselves within it.
Christopher Locke
#27. Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#28. For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about life itself, his own being among others, wherever he lived for the moment, there was his home.
Pearl S. Buck
#29. Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed
To form the angelic butterfly, that goes
To judgment, leaving all defence behind?
Why doth your mind take such exalted pose,
Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean
As worm which never transformation knows?
Dante Alighieri
#30. Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.
Mary E. DeMuth
#31. Perhaps those deprived of beauty perceive it most instinctively.
David Mitchell
#32. What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. Then, as I write, I begin to perceive an ending. I begin to see a destination, although sometimes that changes. And then, of course, there's the whole middle section looming.
Lois Lowry
#34. To be consistent in achieving inner peace, we must perceive a world where everyone is innocent.
Gerald Jampolsky
#35. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
Victor Hugo
#36. I perceive , Sir , you are one of those who love an authority more than a reason
Thomas Love Peacock
#37. Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.
Anne Bradstreet
#38. Ive gotten a chance to look at their organization and at the same time talk to Chuck and Vince about how they perceive things. Ive come away satisfied that this organization wants to win and get things on track.
Lou Piniella
#39. Perceive conflict as positive, creative, and issue driven. Don't allow personal attacks.
Eunice Parisi-Carew
#40. There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
J. William Fulbright
#41. Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it.
Hannah Arendt
#42. I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it.
Jaggi Vasudev
#43. God has provided us with a mind and logical thinking, but He also has placed into each of us a spirit. With the help of the human spirit we can perceive the Spirit of God and learn to know our Creator.
Eve Juurik
#44. The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
Barry Commoner
#45. Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
Joan Didion
#46. If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.
Gail Collins
#47. The way they perceive the world suddenly changes, and they find themselves without any sense of separation between themselves and the rest of the world.
Adyashanti
#48. Power is the band that we perceive things on. In radio we have stations. Frequencies vibrate at certain rates and within those frequencies we transmit information and receive information.
Frederick Lenz
#49. Adopting a child is a blessing. Those who perceive themselves as "doing someone a favor" are not ready to adopt. Pity is such an insult. When making a lifetime commitment to someone, it's no time to let guilt or excessive altruism take over.
William R. Cutrer
#50. I do not perceive myself to be mad. But if I were truly mad, would I be able to tell?
Jim Butcher
#51. The focus we hold in our minds affects what we perceive and how we perform.
David Allen
#53. Happiness is a reflection of how you perceive the moment
Jane Emery
#54. To be joyful and peaceful within yourself every moment of your life, to be able to perceive life beyond its physical limitations - these are not superhuman qualities. These are human possibilities. Yoga is not about being superhuman; it is about realizing that being human is super.
Sadhguru
#55. You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Anouk Aimee
#56. There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious.
Wei Wu Wei
#57. Actually, I'm highly logical, which allows me to look past extraneous detail and perceive clearly that which others overlook.
J.K. Rowling
#58. Maps, contour maps and all maps, intrigue us for the metaphors that they are: tools to give us a sense of something whose truth is far richer but without which we would perceive nothing and never find our bearings.
Zia Haider Rahman
#59. Wit is the genius to perceive and the metaphor to express.' Or
Patricia Cornwell
#60. You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.'
Michael Sheen
#61. I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.
Hillary Clinton
#62. You cannot perceive what you are not in the vibration of.
Darryl Anka
#63. Do not think dishonestly ... Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. Perceive those things which cannot be seen. Pay attention even to trifles. Do nothing which is of no use.
Miyamoto Musashi
#64. When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.
Sam Shepard
#65. There is no reason, therefore, so far as I am able to perceive, to deny the ultimate and absolute philosophical validity of a theory of geometry which regards space as composed of points, and not as a mere assemblage of relations between non-spatial terms.
Bertrand Russell
#66. When we merely say that we are bad, the 'wrath' of God seems a barbarous doctrine; as soon as we perceive our badness, it appears inevitable, a mere corollary from God's goodness. To
C.S. Lewis
#67. Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#68. Never forget that life is good when you perceive that it's not.
Take every step forward with love and joy and it will change your perception.
Debasish Mridha
#69. In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.
Ron Glass
#70. Life is beautiful all of the time. Just to be alive and perceive that beauty of life all around you and within you is the best that there is.
Frederick Lenz
#71. you asked me if I believed in eternal love. Love is something way too abstract and indefinable. It depends on what we perceive and what we experience. If we don't exist, it doesn't exist. And we change so much; love must change as well.
Julie Maroh
#72. As children we have no appreciation of scenery because, having not yet stored similar scenes in our imagination, with their attendant emotions and circumstances, we perceive it without psychic depth. I now looked at the cloudcrowned summits with my
Gene Wolfe
#73. Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.
John Wooden
#74. But I perceive in you so excellent a touch of modesty that you will not extort from me what I am willing to keep in.
William Shakespeare
#75. Take care of the way in which you turn to the dead. Do not think of that which perishes. Look fixedly, and you will perceive the living light of your beloved dead in heaven.
Victor Hugo
#76. It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.
Gautama Buddha
#77. In fact, all of us are very susceptible to having our humiliating experiences turn to shame, especially when the person who is putting us down is someone with whom we have a valued relationship or someone whom we perceive to have more power than we do...
Brene Brown
#78. In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.
Khaled Hosseini
#79. Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.
John Paul Caponigro
#80. The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.
Mark Twain
#81. It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.
Charles W. Leadbeater
#82. It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work.
Giorgio Napolitano
#83. And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Romane Empire , sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: For so did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruines of that Heathen Power.
Thomas Hobbes
#84. It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.
Wangari Maathai
#85. Color is everywhere, so everything has changed. I still can't see color, but I can perceive it. I can experience it in a way that allows me to be a part of this reality, which I was excluded from before. Thanks to the eyeborg, I've made a career by combining music and art.
Neil Harbisson
#86. Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention that we're in.
Frederick Lenz
#87. Visible nature is but a distorted reflection of a more perfect world and the creative individual viewing her is inspired to perceive within and behind her many garments, that which is timeless and entirely beautiful.
Lawren Harris
#88. I think it's fascinating that I receive attention for what people perceive to be a level of manliness or machismo, when amongst my family of farmers and paramedics and regular Americans, I'm kind of the sissy in my family.
Nick Offerman
#89. You love yourself and you are happy, and what you perceive as self-loathing and misery are really outside of you.
Bryant McGill
#90. The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.
Malcolm Turnbull
#91. Labels are boring and often have nothing to with the person; it is just the way others perceive you, or choose to perceive you.
Shannen Doherty
#92. How you perceive The Father to be, determines what you believe you'll receive from Him."
From "Freedom for LIFE -all of God, inside you
T. Everett Smith
#93. Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.
Abraham Zaleznik
#94. We might say that we perceive the things themselves, that we are the world that thinks itself
or that the world is at the heart of our flesh.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#95. In reality, many choices are between things that are not that much different. The value of choice depends on our ability to perceive differences between the options.
Sheena Iyengar
#96. I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own. What the heart can perceive is a very different matter.
Gordon Parks
#97. [N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.
Charley Reese
#98. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.
Abraham Lincoln
#99. If an astronomer calculates from the sky
he will ascertain the paths of the moon and the stars;
but in his house the womenfolk are at variance,
and he does not perceive their various misconduct.
Nagarjuna
#100. Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz