Perception Quotes

My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

A community is easily divide when their perception of the same thing is different

There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

The older you get, the more you learn to see what you've been taught to see. When you're a kid, you see what's there.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body.

We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.

Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends.

Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and there is no objective world out there. Every moment, your consciousness creates the world that you inhabit.

All perception is colored by emotion.

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

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.

It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)

Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other and therefore free to love the other. Where there is control, or perception of control, there is not love. Love only exists where there is freedom.

I prefer to see with closed eyes.

As soon as you start to tell yourself in your perception that you can't do something anymore, then your biological system will adjust to prove you right. You will not do what you think you can't do.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.

Krav Maga heightens perception and transforms fear into something more productive.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.

Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

I always feel like I can do anything. That's the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself... If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything

Life has everything in it. But you only see what your perception allow you to see

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning.

Learn to walk in God’s perception of who you are, because yours is not good enough.

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

A miracle is a shift in perception. The moment that we choose to perceive our life with love, we can create miraculous change.

I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true.

Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.

He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach to Him is, in the same proportion, a degree of happiness.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.

People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention.

The problem is not our situation but our perception of our situation

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.