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Perception Quotes

"We have confused the real and the extraordinary to the point where we no longer know which is which"
Jose Saramago
"People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true"
Jose Saramago
"Human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light"
Jose Saramago
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes"
Marcel Proust
"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were"
Marcel Proust
"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."
Marie Curie
"The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never."
Mikhail Bulgakov
"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you"
Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?"
Philip Roth
"Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument"
Primo Levi
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality"
Seneca
"Once you label me you negate me."
Søren Kierkegaard
"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined"
Toni Morrison
"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change"
Wayne Dyer
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite"
William Blake
"Don't confuse honours with achievement."
Zadie Smith
"See things in the present, even if they are in the future"
Larry Ellison
"Emotionally, I have no picture-book ideas about love."
Elizabeth Gilbert
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
Charles Darwin
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter"
John Keats