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Perception Quotes

"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy."
Anton Chekhov
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The world is my idea."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."
Carl Sagan
"There is no story that is not true, the world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others "
Chinua Achebe
"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them"
David Hume
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream"
Edgar Allan Poe
"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"There is no truth Only perception"
Gustave Flaubert
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."
Harper Lee
"Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost"
Henry James
"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities."
Herman Melville
"When we say we know what we are talking about, we mean that we know what we think about something, rather than knowing the facts"
Ian McEwan
"Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets"
Jacques Derrida
"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen."
John Steinbeck
"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing"
Jorge Luis Borges