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Perception Quotes

"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets"
Jacques Derrida
"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
"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities."
Herman Melville
"Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost"
Henry James
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."
Harper Lee
"There is no truth Only perception"
Gustave Flaubert
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream"
Edgar Allan Poe
"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them"
David Hume
"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
"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."
Carl Sagan
"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The world is my idea."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."
Helen Keller
"Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth."
Virginia Woolf
"When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting."
Jon Kabat Zinn
"A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Because people from a distance can't tell who is who"
Jay Z