Perception Quotes - Page 3

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.

It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

'One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever.'

Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

I became a chameleon. My color didn't change. But I could change your perception of my color.

Organized perception is what art is all about.

The Universe doesn’t make mistakes. Everything is happening just as it should. It’s only our perception of difficulties that causes us the distress and the difficulty we experience. Not only that, but when we label events as ‘bad,' we fail to perceive the benefit that is waiting for us.

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

The moral of the story: perceptions are everything. During each moment you are in contact with a customer, you are the organization.

Confidence without clarity is always a disaster.

When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

If a tablet is not wiped clean of it's figures, nothing can be written upon it. A single heart cannot serve as the place for two things, let alone for several things. If the heart is filled with the forms of sensory perceptions, it is rare that it would perceive the meaning of Allah, even if one were to say Allah a thousand times. When the heart is empty of all that is other-than-God, if one uttered Allah only once, one would find such bliss that the tongue could not describe.