Perception Quotes

The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau

Beauty, Moral, Test

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake

Everything, Appear, Infinite

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin

Art, Meaning, Writer

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
Paulo Coelho

Love, Time, Women

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Aldous Huxley

Between, Known, Unknown

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.
Angelina Jolie

Fool, Anyone, Cares

Science is nothing but perception.
Plato

Science, Nothing

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.
Jon Bon Jovi

Change, Happen, Around

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
Angelina Jolie

Time, Hard, Person

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.
Jim Brown

Work, Time, Trying

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.
Deepak Chopra

Single, Reality, System

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Ansel Adams

Powerful, Expression, Infinite

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

Someone, Matter, Disability

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty, Fun, Yourself

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
William Wordsworth

Beauty, Mind, Human

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.
Amy Grant

Life, Time, Hard

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Michelangelo

Beauty, Else, Here

There is no truth. There is only perception.
Gustave Flaubert

Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.
Stephen Colbert

Mean, Everything, Country

Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception.
Rush Limbaugh

Everything, Deception, Dog

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
E. O. Wilson

Life, Religion, Islam

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.
Louis C. K.

Twisted, Created, Quickly

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.
Alan Moore

Experience, Made, Universe

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Billy Joel

Life, Around, Artist

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
H. G. Wells

Done, Serious, Between

I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.
Kim Kardashian

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Children, Long, Lost

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
Alexis Carrel

Reality, Intuition, Close

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.
Brad Pitt

Life, Work, Accept

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
Edward de Bono

Change, Thinking, Ideas

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