Friday 13 September 2013

Perception - Quotes

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions. - Leonardo da Vinci

All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end. - Neil Gaiman

Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief is not the effect of reasoning, but the immediate consequence of perception. When philosophers have wearied themselves and their readers with their speculations upon this subject, they can neither strengthen this belief, nor weaken it; nor can they show how it is produced. It puts the philosopher and the peasant upon a level; and neither of them can give any other reason for believing his senses, than that he finds it impossible for him to do otherwise. - Thomas Reid

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

It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. - C. W. Leadbeater

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them. - Tom Robbins

Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. - Hans Margolius

People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth. - Roberto Bolano

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds. - Steve Young

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

Things which we see are not by themselves what we see … It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them. - Immanuel Kant

Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes. - Virginia Woolf

What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything. - Donna Quesada

When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite. - William Blake

When we become fixed in our perceptions, we lose our ability to fly. - Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Your opinion is your opinion, your perception is your perception – do not confuse them with "facts" or "truth". Wars have been fought and millions have been killed because of the inability of men to understand the idea that EVERYBODY has a different viewpoint. - John Moore

Your perception will become clear only when you can look into your soul. - Carl Jung

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