Top 605 Perceptions Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

We all have perceptions or boxes that we put each other in.

The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

Perceptions change with time and you can't rush it, in my judgment.

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions.

Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable.

There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world.

Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

I am very aware of the impact that television has on people, in changing perceptions.

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

Perceptions are essential in politics.

Anything that opens up people's perceptions a bit is good.

In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your perceptions of the bull that give you the upper hand. You read the bull, you learn to read the bull more and more accurately, and this reading of the bull is how you deploy your intelligence against the bull's intelligence. Your accuracy in reading the bull is a weapon, maybe your most important weapon, against all the bull's weapons. On the other hand, you're human, you have the human tendency to read into the bull things which may not actually be there.

Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past.

The other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person. And that is the foundation for violence and conflict and war.

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.

We're using gradients of light as an auric measurement, a quantified auric measurement of the ascension of consciousness from the relatively sensorial, material perceptions of existence to the more refined spiritual perceptions of existence.

Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.

Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life.

People read things on Google, and they have these perceptions, these misconceived perceptions of who you are. At times that hurts, because they really don't know who I am.

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception - what you think is true about a given situation. If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too. So check your perceptions, and beyond that check the truthfulness of your paradigms - what you believe. Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe.

The love of God uplifts and enlarges us. I can never think of myself anymore as exclusively in this body; I feel that I am present in all bodies. I have no awareness of race or other distinctions at all. In my perceptions, just as I feel my own consciousness in every part of my physical form, I feel you all to be a part of me. Everything that is living I feel within this body. I know the sensations of all. It is not imagination; it is Self-realization. This consciousness is far beyond telepathy. It is awareness of the perceptions of every being. That is the meaning of Christ Consciousness.

Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Life's all about perceptions.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

Perceptions of impossibility are commonly disspelled by unmitigated courage and perseverance.

You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.

I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.

My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.

It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

Things are recalibrated according to new perspectives and perceptions. It's fascinating to me.

I want to try to help shift perceptions people may have of me as an actor.

As other perceptions arise...the total vision of human possibilities enlarges and is transformed.

The consistent finding of psychological research is that we are fairly accurate in our perceptions of others. It's our self-perceptions that are distorted because we look at ourselves in a rose-colored mirror.

Gradually I saw that it was less interesting for me, as an artist, to frame the world wholly according to my own perceptions. I wanted instead to create situations in which I allowed others' perceptions to surface with my own.

Performance or no performance, perceptions do matter. More so the voters's perceptions on the performance of their state governments.

Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration.

We can conceive a thinking being to have either many or few perceptions. Suppose the mind to be reduced even below the life of anoyster. Suppose it to have only one perception, as of thirst or hunger. Consider it in that situation. Do you conceive any thing but merely that perception? Have you any notion of self or substance? If not, the addition of other perceptions can never give you that notion.

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

I think sports is a quest to find out what really is - not what perceptions are.

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

The West Coast is so different from the common perceptions of it.

In my view, the holy is not based so much on the physical environment, but on the experience and perceptions of it.

The weapons of the positive revolution are not bullets and bombs but simple human perceptions. Bullets and bombs may offer physical power but eventually will only work if they change perceptions and values. Why not go the direct route and work with perceptions and values?

What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.

Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life.