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| Quotations On Perception |
Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
-- A Course In Miracles
Course on Forgiveness Based on Christianity, Eastern Philosophy
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To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
-- Henri L. Bergson
1859-1941, French Philosopher
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.
-- William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ''creative observation.'' Creative viewing.
-- William S. Burroughs
1914-1997, American Writer
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You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
-- M. Shawn Cole
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To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
-- Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
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However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is --in other words, not a thing, but a think.
-- Penelope Fitzgerald
1916-, British Author
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
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