Perception Quotes

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. (William Blake)
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely. View quote
Don DeLillo
Our understanding is correlative to our perception. View quote
Robert Delaunay
There is no truth. There is only perception. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
The perception of beauty is a moral test. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me. View quote
Angelina Jolie
And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music. View quote
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. View quote
Miyamoto Musashi
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual. View quote
Alexander Fleming
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. View quote
Edward de Bono
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)
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. View quote
William Wordsworth
Human perception is literally incarnation. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception. View quote
David Icke
Free will is an illusion. It is synonymous with incomplete perception. View quote
Robert J. Sawyer
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us. View quote
Sigmund Freud
My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially. View quote
Valerie Trierweiler
... The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty. View quote
James Redfield
Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war. (Chris Hedges)
A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its law and its rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception. View quote
Jacques Derrida
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. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely, they express the laws of mechanics for such systems as they appear to beings who have not the fineness of perception to enable them to appreciate quantities of the order of magnitude of those which relate to single particles, and who cannot repeat their experiments often enough to obtain any but the most probable results. View quote
Josiah Willard Gibbs