Perception Quotes - Page 13

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

The unlived life is not worth examining.

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

I know that I'm an animal that displays bilateral symmetry. I understand that one side should be the mirror of the other, and that human perceptions of beauty are intimately associated with symmetry. For example, I am very handsome.

There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters.

...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'

Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of all Life.

We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.

Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and consciousness all interconnected. Investigating in this way, we come to realize that there is no me or mine in any one part, just as a sound does not belong to any one part of the lute.

Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

Fashion is not trivial. It's a huge industry and a big part of our lives. Fashion is about us - how we look and present ourselves, how we can change ourselves, and our perceptions. You can dress up to be quite glorious creatures - it's all a very important part of life.

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

[I]n general, my work is less about expanding the possibilities of photography than about re-investing it with a truer perception of things by returning to a simple method, one that photography had from the beginning of its existence.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

Our world exists onlythrough our perception of it. Change our perception of our world and we change the world -- for us.

Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.

If we don't start acknowledging our correct position as nothing more than a part of the planet as opposed to this perception that we're superior, then we won't have it much longer. We're facing a very turbulent, war-torn, drought-ridden existence for future generations unless we act now.

Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life.

I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.

Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.

Intelligence is of paramount importance to live life sensibly, because without intelligence, there is no clarity. And Clarity is intelligence everyone is capable of.

To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms of totally abstract tautology. We can sometimes say that if such and such abstract suppositions or postulates are given, then such and such abstract suppositions or postulates are given, then such and such must follow absolutely. But the truth about what can be perceived or arrived at by induction from perception is something else again.