Top 1200 Perception Of Beauty Quotes & Sayings

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

Power is the thing that holds a band of perception together, and a band of perception is life for those who perceive in that band. If the band of perception were to go away, they would not exist.

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.

A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may.

Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.

Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation.

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.

It does not matter what others think, 'beauty' is just perception.

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.

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

As a mother, I think it's so important to change the perception of beauty.

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.

...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'

Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, ... or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.

I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.

For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.

Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception.

The beauty about history is that it's open to perception.

The bands of perception vary greatly. There is the human band of perception. There are lots of different bands of perception. Simply because we are in one band of perception, doesn't mean others are not there.

The U.K. perception of beauty is totally out of whack.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up.

What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence only occurs through the act of perception.

We desire to possess a beauty that is worth pursuing, worth fighting for, a beauty that is core to who we truly are. We want beauty that can be seen; beauty that can be felt; beauty that affects others; a beauty all our own to unveil.

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

I don't really listen to the media or anyone's perception of beauty, so it makes me almost immune to silly comments about my body.

Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of the beauty of life.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

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.

ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.

The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself.

It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.

There is obviously a gap between the public's perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite's perception.

Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.

All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.

It's important to have transgender representation because we represent the forthcoming generation, and their new perception on the standard of beauty - which I believe is being true to yourself, loving yourself and others.

Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.

We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.

Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception of darkness, seeing God in both beauty and horror.

...The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty.

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.

ISIS is gaining strength because the perception is that they're winning. And President [Barack] Obama fuels that perception.