79 Quotes About Perception

A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It may dispel biased perceptions; make us recognize ignored fragments and remember forsaken episodes of our life story. Art may sometimes even be nasty and disturbing, if we don’t want to consent to its philosophy or concept, but it might, in the end, perhaps reconcile us with ourselves. ("When is Art?"). Erik Pevernagie

Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice. Suzy Kassem

Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they did this intending to draw fools away from foolishness. It would be as if I attacked fire -- a very good and necessary element nevertheless -- because some people burnt themselves, or water because someone drowned. The same can be said of all good things which can be used well or used badly. But one must not attack them if fools abuse them. Christine De Pizan

This world is the playing ground of our thoughts and imaginations which create our perceptions. Debasish Mridha

Philosophy may not follow any laws but it always follows our perceptions. Debasish Mridha

You only ever have three things: 1) your self, wellbeing and mindset 2) Your life network, resources and resourcefulness 3) Your reputation and goodwill. Treasure and tend the first. Value, support and build the second. And mindfully, wisely ensure that the third (your life current and savings account) is always in credit. Rasheed Ogunlaru

There’s a writer for you, ” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers–because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer–still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying–only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers. . F. Scott Fitzgerald

SENSES, APPEARANCE, ESSENCE and EXISTENCEThe world we see with our senses is very different than the world we see through our essence. Our senses perceive the world of appearance. Our essence perceives the deeper layers of existence. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is to have no goal other than to understand. "Understanding" has to be the ultimate goal. Only then, can we solve the problems. Petek Kabakci

SENSES, APPEARANCE, ESSENCE and EXISTENCEThe world we see with our senses are very different than the world we see through our essence. Our senses perceive the world of appearance. Our essence perceive the deeper layers of existence. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is not to have any goal other than to understand. "Understanding" has to be the ultimate goal. Then, we can solve the problems. Petek Kabakci

I notice you use 'work' and 'job' interchangeably. oughten to do that. A job's what you force yourself to pay attention to for money. With work, you don't have to force yourself. (Man dining at Claudia Sanders Dinner House) William Least HeatMoon

Casting a curious gaze down on planet Earth, extra-terrestrial beings could well be forgiven for assuming that we humans are programmed in every move we make, by a palm-sized, oblong, slab of glass. More perplexing than that, who on earth could convince them otherwise ? Alex Morritt

Are you listening, Jasper? Sometimes you'll be walking in the city late at night, and a woman walking in front of you will spin her head around and then cross the street simply because some members of your gender rape women and molest children! Steve Toltz

A good artist makes imaginations real! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Never compromise your perceptions and truth to validate the perceptions of others. Debasish Mridha

Consciousness is a transformational dynamic force which transforms us by changing our imaginations and perceptions. Debasish Mridha

You can elevate yourself to a level of higher consciousness simply by changing your thoughts, perceptions, and feelings. Debasish Mridha

Be true to yourself to reveal your own unique beauties, feelings, and perceptions. Debasish Mridha

Our spirit knows our purpose, let these en-grained impressions shape our perceptions of who we think we are today. Napz Cherub Pellazo

Good fortune often occurs when you stop expecting life to present opportunities to you and you start presenting opportunities to life. Rasheed Ogunlaru

The opinions of others are their perceptions. Define your life! Lailah Gifty Akita

When the brain becomes too tired, the mind stops decrypting the perceptions in our mental world and surrenders willingly to the unguarded moments of life. For some time, the safeguards of our thinking pattern weaken and discontinue the decoding of the chips of daily reality. The mind picks the instants which are above suspicion, pure and innocent. ("Uber alle Gipfeln ist Ruh" ) Erik Pevernagie

Opportunities can become obstacles, same way obstacles can become opportunities; it all depends on how they are being interpreted by the mind of a person. Israelmore Ayivor

Education is a chemical reaction between knowledge and the mind; the byproducts are new thoughts, new ideas, new perceptions, and new feelings. Debasish Mridha

In order for collaboration to take place, managers must give up their silos and their perceptions of power. Jane Ripley

Despite the restrictions, we are safe within (the Box). But — and here is the problem — once we identify something more, that awareness irrevocably changes our perceptions of the Box. Heidi Reagan

We see what we want to see, what we expect to see, instead of what's really there. I don't think we do it on purpose, most of the time. We just get kind of stuck. We start thinking that the way things are is the way they'll always be. But that's not true. It can't be true. Because the world is never still. Unknown

The language of mathematics, scientific observations, and our perceptivity together knit the window to reality. Neeti Sinha

We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments. Stefan Zweig

Reality depends a great deal upon one believing what he sees–or seeing what he believes. Either way. Richelle E. Goodrich

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently. Richelle E. Goodrich

In spite of her desire for a contained universe, her life felt scattered, full of many small moments, without great purpose. That is what she thought, though what is most untrustworthy about our natures and self-worth is how we differe in our own realities from the way we are seen by others. Michael Ondaatje

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires. Tim Fargo

Don't underestimate the power of being underestimated. Tim Fargo

When you change your level of consciousness and awareness, the situation around you will change with joy. Debasish Mridha

Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more colorful garments, more fancifully decorated vehicles, a wonderful sense of rhythm, and charm, charm, charm; unambitious, no, lazy, ignorant, superstitious, uninhibited people, never on time, conspicuously poorer (how could it be otherwise, say the northerners); who for all their poverty and squalor lead enviable lives -- envied, that is, by work-driven, sensually inhibted, less corruptly governed northerners. We are superior to them, say the northerners, clearly superior. We do not shirk our duties or tell lies as a matter of course, we work hard, we are punctual, we keep reliable accounts. But they have more fun than we do .. They caution[ed] themselves as people do who know they are part of a superior culture: we mustn't let ourselves go, mustn't descend to the level of the .. jungle, street, bush, bog, hills, outback (take your pick). For if you start dancing on tables, fanning yourself, feeling sleepy when you pick up a book, developing a sense of rhythm, making love whenever you feel like it -- then you know. The south has got you. Susan Sontag

Chromatacia…society…ruled by a colortocracy…social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see. Jasper Fforde

We don’t yet have a body of scientific knowledge about evil to be called a facet of psychology. Therefore, religious reasoning for actions will always be at the discretion of the psychologist, thus making them the judge and jury over what is delusion and what is a spiritual experience that has to be sedated. Shannon L. Alder

To fight adversity, to improvise, to solve problems, and to save the coup, I had gathered all my senses into unusual configurations, which made me grow wild and enhanced my perceptions. Philippe Petit

Maybe the reason faith is called faith is because seeing doesn’t lead to belief, but belief transforms the way we see. Josh Ross

Create an opportunity for change to have way in your attitude and lifestyle. Sometimes, it not us, but our perceptions scare away change! Israelmore Ayivor

In most cases, failure is not determined by the obstacles we face, but by how we approach them and what our perceptions whisper to when on encountering eventualities. Israelmore Ayivor

Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look. Amy Neftzger

A fundamental shift of our perceptions and consciousness are necessary for any great improvements for mankind. Debasish Mridha

Just change your attitude and perception to change your life. Debasish Mridha

Every cell in the body has eyes to see and perceptions to feel. Debasish Mridha M.D.

Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, "I went there"--- China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- "and it wasn't like that." I say, "Because I am not you. Paul Theroux

Your thoughts are based on your perceptions and those thoughts are capable to refine your perceptions again. Bikash Bhandari

Happiness depends on our perceptions and thoughts. Debasish Mridha

The single biggest thing I’ve done to improve my relationship with others, was to improve the relationship I have with myself. I became lovable when I was able to love myself. No one can love you, if you don’t love you. Accept, nurture and love yourself as you are. You’ll be amazed how much it will also change how others perceive you. Akiroq Brost

Although others can devalue who we are and what we do it is entirely up to us, whether we accept or reject it. Whenever we disagree with the offered opinion we can thank for it and then move on. There is no need to prove at all that we have a different perception of ourselves from what we are being offered. Raphael Zernoff

Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not. You stand two of you lot next to each other, and you could be continents away for all it means anything. Neil Gaiman

There are no barriers to poetry or prophecy; by their nature they are barrier-breakers, bursts of perceptions, lines into infinity. If the poet lies about his vision he lies about himself and in himself; this produces a true barrier. Lenore Kandel

Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth. DaShanne Stokes

Only if we transvalue the plain-vanilla standards of our life, we may bring back things to light and sense the lies behind perceptions. ("Behind the frosted glass") Erik Pevernagie

Afraid of offending with an off word or the slightest insensitivity, I keep an unobtrusive and silent distance. Nevertheless, my pursed lips and offish stance are perceived as cold, managing to offend all. Richelle E. Goodrich

When someone says "I Love You, " it is imperative that you know if you are loved for "WHAT you are" or "WHO you are." When the academic qualifications, professionals, positions, possessions, good look, fat bank accounts and all that has been acquired over the years are taken away, all that is left is "Who you are" - Your Personality (character, values, perceptions.)" We are never truly loved, until we are loved for WHO and not WHAT we are . Olaotan Fawehinmi

The energy you bring, positive or negative, dictates your perceptions, receptions and radiations. T.F. Hodge

I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer. Tom Conrad

Minutes turn into hours that add up to days amounting to weeks that become  months melting into yearsaccumulating for decadesto pile up for centuriesand ultimately form minutes again―just on a grander, divine scale. Richelle E. Goodrich

We wait for the rains to cease, the clouds to part, and the sun to shine before saying life is good. Ironically, it is because we endure the storms that life seems so wonderfully bright at their passing. Richelle E. Goodrich

Do you think he's the murderer?"" It's worse than that -- he's an actor! Julian Fellowes

Perception does not define who we are, but it does define where we are limited, and where we are not yet free. Georgi Y. Johnson

As humans, reality for us is largely based on other people's perceptions. If there's 20 bodies in your crawl space but you haven't been caught yet, you tell yourself you're still a birthday clown, and that's how you keep doing it. Dan Harmon

Doubt is a disease that infects the mind creating a mistrust of peoples motives and ones own perceptions. Doubt has the ability to call into questions everything you ever believed about someone and reinforce the darkest suspicions of our inner circle. Emily Thorne

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. Michael Shermer

Dissociation, a form of hypnotic trance, helps children survive the abuse… The abuse takes on a dream-like, surreal quality and deadened feelings and altered perceptions add to the strangeness. The whole scene does not fit into the 'real world.' It is simple to forget, easy to believe nothing happened. Renee Fredrickson

Truth is a battle of perceptions. People only see what they're prepared to confront. It's not what you look at that matters, but what you see. And when then different perceptions battle against one another, the truth has a way of getting lost. And the monsters find a way of getting out. Emily Thorne

I mulled over the implications and decided not to waste my time worrying about what everyone else thought, or to bother attempting to change their perceptions. My time at the Keep was just a stopover. Let them wonder. Maria V. Snyder

People think - Rebel, Adamant, Egoistic, Impractical, ProudMy answer - Unconventional, Fighter, Uncompromising, Dreamer, God's Masterpiece Perception Matters Henna Sohail

The thought of being whoever I want is a terrifying thing, because I have only ever been who everyone has wanted me to be. Dianna Hardy

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy. Joe Hill

Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations. T.F. Hodge

What breaks you down is not the amount of pressure you feel at one time, but it’s the way you perceive and handle it. Ashish Patel

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. Gail Sheehy

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. Leonardo Da Vinci