Browsing Topic Best Perception Quotes

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be…including our perception of it

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you want to take your life in the future.

All perception is colored by emotion.

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

One of the many pleasures of growing older is caring less about what people think of you.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

If you’ve got a gut feeling that your rulers are working to control your perception of the war in Ukraine, it is safe to trust that feeling.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

All perception is a gamble.

The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.

The best things in life aren’t things.

Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man or from generation to generation, at least not permanently. It is the perception, the knowledge and understanding of them, their ideas in the Platonic sense, that are passed along. Everything social can have existence only through mentality.

Porter Rockwell was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of very narrow perceptions, intense convictions, and changeless tenacity. In his build he was a gladiator; in his humor a Yankee lumberman; in his memory a Bourbon; in his vengeance an Indian. A strange mixture, only to be found on the American continent

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

We have to have loving speech. And if we are honest, if we are true, terrorists will open their hearts. Then we practice compassionate listening, and we can learn so much about our own perception and their perception. Only after that can we help remove wrong perception. That is the best way, the only way, to remove terrorism.

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

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

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given. This is called the subtler perception of the way things are. The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast. Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.

The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: In the beginning was the Word.

Perception of ideas, rather than the storing of them, should be the aim of education.

We can control our lives by controlling our perceptions.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.