Perception Quotes

The purpose of existence is to exist. It is too fantastic to have a meaning.

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.

...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

You can actually alter a person's perception when they're that young. I mean, it can affect them in a very positive way.

I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important to me.

We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish. Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.

I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

President Obama fuels that perception. That will change when militants across the globe see that when you join ISIS that you are giving up your life, you are signing your death warrant.

Back then they had Elvis and they thought Elvis was so risqué. So everyone has their perception to what innocence is.

ISIS is gaining strength because the perception is that they're winning. And President [Barack] Obama fuels that perception.

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

The common perception is it only happens to people who aren't paying attention.

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

Rest in peace to Heath Ledger but I'm no joker

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

I hated that perception that I didn't work hard, that I really don't love basketball.

Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".

I learned quickly that if the student’s perception is that you’re not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

For me, it feels like my ideas are more specific to random thoughts or single ideas I might have, as opposed to being influenced by a general perception of absurdity.

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

Whatever people do, they do for a reason and they think that it meets their needs....by their perception.

It is a little surprising given the strength of the economy that there is a perception - at least among some of the public - that the economy is not very good.

Our awareness creates life. Life does not exist independently of perception.

Perception is, in essence, who we are. We are what we perceive. What we perceive defines who we are.

From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being.

This particular world is not really a world, it's a perception that you are having at the moment.

Those who dissolve their body of perception completely are absorbed into what we would call nirvana.

The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been.

Perception defines everything.

When you want full color perception, you must give up preferring some colors and hating others, for you can only hate one aspect of a color, not a whole color, it seems, hate being blind, like 'love.

Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.

There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception.

Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It gives it form. Without perception there is no existence.

Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence only occurs through the act of perception.

Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity.

Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.

Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.

Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts.

Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.

Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What it does is bring you into reality as perception itself.

The human field of perception is not the only band of perception. Nor is it necessarily the best; there is no such thing in infinity. Infinity does not label.

Life is perception. We perceive through different parts of the body of the universe.

All the universes are bound together by a web, a matrix, which is our perception. And our perception actually has colors; it has bands. We call them bands of attention.

Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception.

Making conclusions about life is a sure way to deny yourself the possibility of a human being transforming himself into the Divine.