Top 100 Quotes About Perception
#1. American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.
Noam Chomsky
#2. There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#3. Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception of darkness, seeing God in both beauty and horror.
Frederick Lenz
#4. A novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.
Elizabeth Bowen
#5. Our perception is our window to the world, and we need to wipe the dust off of our window often so we can continue to see through it clearly.
Joseph P. Kauffman
#7. If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.
George Steiner
#8. Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.
Edwin S. Shneidman
#9. There's a truth that's deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception.
Gregory David Roberts
#10. One thing people often want me to talk about is my public love life. When it comes to my love life, the perception seems as though I am a player. But that's not true. Love is something I am still learning. It's just an obstacle that I haven't yet mastered. I think that's my biggest hurdle in life.
Chris Brown
#11. Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
Noam Chomsky
#12. Neither did she realise yet that grief is a kind of glue, too, that the essence of humanity is this empathy, and that we fall together in that moment of tenderest perception when we see and feel each other's wounds and know another's sorrow like a brother of our own.
Niall Williams
#13. Bill Brent knew nothing about epistemology; but he knew that man must live by his own rational perception of reality, that he cannot act against it or escape it or find a substitute for it - and that there is no other way for him to live. He
Ayn Rand
#14. The clairvoyant is simply a man who develops within himself the power to respond to another octave out of the stupendous gamut of possible vibrations, and so enables himself to see more of the world around him than those of more limited perception.
Charles Webster Leadbeater
#15. Perception is created and twisted so quickly.
Louis C.K.
#16. I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?
Stephen Baldwin
#17. Buchanan's constant crowing about his great victory only added to the perception that he was a clown; a blithering buffoon.
C.L. Gammon
#18. I come from a highly moral family. I was very much taught what was right and wrong, and in my perception of things, I did something that was very wrong. To know that, and to then be so publicly exposed, was very hard.
Kimberly Quinn
#19. Explanations can't explain love--only deep perception can do that.
Debasish Mridha
#20. There are people who want awards because it changes the perception of the audience. But I'm not into all that.
Salman Khan
#21. I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.
Deborah Cox
#22. People fail to love unconditionally because as soon as their perception of you changes so does their behavior.
Karen L. Fleming
#23. I aggressively run into things, back up into things, have no depth perception, often forget which buttons and knobs do what, and am easily distracted. But enough about my sex life! Back to my driving skills!
Tyler Oakley
#24. No matter how glorious the perception, no matter how gratifying the event,nothing is ever truly fulfilling until you draw closer to God and enter the mystical temple God placed within you.
Kristen Johnson Ingram
#25. People rely too much on their lifelong instincts. Their perception is divided by necessary obedience, which they themselves have become too weak to liberate themselves from. I'd let the Devil read me the bible, before I trusted the Words of God or the Mind of Man.
Lionel Suggs
#26. mad, were not my perception and reasonings so clear; and this state of mind appears to have brought with it superior knowledge on all subjects.
Novalis
#27. Even looking at my last film, 'Notorious,' you got a perception about B.I.G. and who he was, but there was a different side to him.
George Tillman Jr.
#28. Defeat is a transient perception but giving up is permanent. So never give up.
Debasish Mridha
#29. Karma means who you are and where your awareness field is on the band of perception.
Frederick Lenz
#30. This particular world is not really a world, it's a perception that you are having at the moment.
Frederick Lenz
#31. People have a perception of me because of Victoria's Secret that I'm sexy, but I'm not a sexy girl. I'm very tomboyish.
Gisele Bundchen
#32. He could sense the ridiculousness of life even as it tore the guts out of him. She saw that now. And death lay coiled in the dark between the perception and the pain.
Janet Fitch
#33. The most fundamental exercise is self-observation, which is the catalyst for inner change, it will give self-knowledge and a clear mind and perception. Without it, the attempt to reach enlightenment and awaken consciousness is destined to fail.
Belsebuub
#34. One of the most powerful and prophetic analysts was Karl Marx. He showed how work can alienate a person from their nature and potential. Certain work can dull and darken human presence ... the linear mind can miss its gift ... Perception is crucial to understanding.
John O'Donohue
#35. In New York, no one really cares who the hell you are. It's strange to be in the public eye where people have a perception of who you are, when they have never even met you.
Roland Orzabal
#36. So many of our problems arise because, in our naive untrained state, we confuse our thoughts with actual reality. We seize on the content of our thoughts as real and build our entire perception and response to reality on it.
Dalai Lama XIV
#37. When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.
Jim Woodring
#38. The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin
D. A. Carson
#39. Events themselves are unimportant. It is the perception of events that is crucial.
John E. Ferling
#40. True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
#41. The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to action. He works best if the entire human being, muscles, senses, and mind, is engaged in the work.
Peter F. Drucker
#42. [My work] is using light as a material to influence or affect the medium of perception. I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.
James Turrell
#43. Wherever there has been expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realisation, and the practicalisation of the Eternal Truth-the oneness of all beings
Swami Vivekananda
#44. The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.
Laozi
#45. Your attitude in life, determines your perception on life.
Jim Reynolds
#46. The inventions of microscopy and telescopy shattered the boundaries of ordinary human perception and fueled the scientific revolution.
Richard J. Borden
#47. We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish.
Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.
Talib Kweli
#48. Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.
Dan Brown
#49. Perception is the lens through which we interpret experiences,
and when we change the lens we change how we experience.
Aisha Mirza
#50. Within you there are thousands of rings of luminosity, bands, and each one is a universe of perception. In the average person's lifetime, they might just open up two or three, maybe four of those bands.
Frederick Lenz
#51. The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.
Bill Gates
#52. Those who are highly evolved, maintain an undiscriminating perception. Seeing everything, labeling nothing, they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness. Thus they are supported by it.
Laozi
#53. I believe that the more we understand about how our hemispheres work together to create our perception of reality, then the more successful we will be in understanding the natural gifts of our own brains, as well as more effectively help people recover from neurological trauma.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#54. Your powers of perception are astounding," the cat drawled. "Although I feel obliged to point out, in the interests of ontological exactitude, that I am in fact only half cat. Personally, though, I have always considered it the better half.
Django Wexler
#55. I almost can't believe I'm going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don't last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.
Megan McCafferty
#56. Clear perception is the cornerstone and an absolute necessity for living your best life - and that's exactly what the focus of a yoga practice should be all about.
Rod Stryker
#57. Perception, influenced by experience and knowledge creates an acceptable level of reality.
Kamil Ali
#58. I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an angle to create a different perception of a person.
Alison Jackson
#59. A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.
Sidney Hook
#60. The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#61. Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you're worthless ... but you're not worthless, you're unappreciated.
Steve Maraboli
#62. Muscle, had goggled him and muzzled him - goggled his mind, muzzled his speech, goggled his perception, muzzled his protest.
John Steinbeck
#63. I believe that a smile is the attribute of a positive attitude, both for yourself and the perception of others.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#64. There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.
Thornton Wilder
#65. Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you. You drag in some general-purpose value words. You throw in a sneer or two about the opposition, and you are a fine fellow who made a fine speech.
Edward De Bono
#66. As it turned out, my perception was so much more intimidating than the reality.
Jennifer Baumgardner
#67. The outer expression of a person often reflects the inner perception and deeper beliefs.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.
James Altucher
#69. I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth.
Norton Juster
#70. Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion
Bruce Lee
#71. Philosophy ... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#72. I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.
Erin O'Connor
#73. The firing pattern of both mirror and canonical neurons in area F5 shows clearly that perception and action are not separated in the brain. They are simply two sides of the same coin, inextricably linked to each other. Some
Marco Iacoboni
#74. Control what people believe, and you control what they do. Who they are. The world is only the aggregate of human perception. Stories are scalpels that allow us to operate on those perceptions.
Mike Carey
#75. It's funny because the perception is that the typical 'X Factor' contestant is the person who's just working 9 to 5 and just decides to one day go and audition. So yeah, for me, it was a very different story.
Fleur East
#76. The great genius of the Shiah was its tragic perception that it is impossible fully to implement the ideals of religion in the inescapably violent realm of politics.
Karen Armstrong
#77. Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and awaken new possibilities for balance, healing, and transformation.
David Simon
#78. No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.
Karen Marie Moning
#79. The world is not a shitty place, it's your perception of the world that is shitty
Steven Aitchison
#80. Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is ...
Miyamoto Musashi
#81. When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.
Ann Leckie
#82. Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.
Lauren Oliver
#83. It was apparent that all of mankind is actually motivated by inner love, but has simply become unaware; most people live their lives as though they're sleepers unawakened to the perception of who they really are.
David Hawkins
#84. In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.
Richard D. Zanuck
#85. Perception is the world; the world is perception. In
Deepak Chopra
#86. When our body language is confident and open, other people respond in kind, unconsciously reinforcing not only their perception of us but also our perception of ourselves.
Amy Cuddy
#87. All that matters is that your perception of reality is what you truly desire.
Steven Redhead
#88. Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.
Ben Okri
#89. Thus we must advance from generalities to particulars; for it is a whole that is best known to sense-perception, (25) and a generality is a kind of whole, comprehending many things within it, like parts.
Aristotle.
#90. Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.
Joanna Trollope
#92. Reverence is an attitude of honoring life.
Reverence automatically brings forth patience.
Reverence permits non-judgemental justice.
Reverence is a perception of the soul.
Gary Zukav
#93. Death. The end of sense-perception, of being controlled by our emotions, of mental activity, of enslavement to our bodies.
Marcus Aurelius
#94. The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a minimum and (2) differential perception of the field of experience is facilitated
Carl Rogers
#95. There is no truth.
There is only perception
and perception is reality!
Manoj Vaz
#96. I do have a funny perception of mine I'd like to share. Being basically a lifetime poet. I've had many people say "I don't like poetry" But they'll listen to song after song that rhymes on the end in couplets Just a thought ...
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#97. I think we have a perception of transvestites all being the same, as one block. It's not one mass or tribe. Everybody's got a different story.
Sean Bean
#98. Faith is not opposed to evidence that we might gain from perception as well as from reason.
Dallas Willard
#99. Some trees grow straight, while others grow gnarled and twisted. Yet none are imperfect. Perfection is merely a perception.
Donald L. Hicks
#100. The new limitations are the human ones of perception.
Milton Babbitt
