Perception Quotes - Page 9

The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.

You cannot be receptive when you are too full of yourself. The less you are, the more you receive. The more you are, the less you receive.

When you don't take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the universe like a ghost ship, merely reacting to wherever it takes you.

We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. No woman can be well dressed unless she is comfortable in what she is wearing.

From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.

Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.

Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition and observation are the sources of our knowledge.

The joy of juxtaposition is endless.

One of the prevalent features of life with an angry or controlling partner is that he frequently tells you what you should think and tries to get you to doubt or devalue your own perceptions and beliefs.

Perception is NOT reality. People have always said that - perception is reality. I reject that hypothesis.

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.

I hate perception. There's far too much of it in football

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

Miracles are a shift in perception.

The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost...a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it is a crisis of mind, which makes it a crisis of those institutions which purport to improve minds.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.