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PERCEPTION: The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. (Unknown Source)
PERCEPTION: I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perception. (Kevin Gates, U.S. rapper, singer, and entrepreneur, Born 1986)
PERCEPTION: The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. (William Makepeace Thackeray, English novelist, 1811-1863)
PERCEPTION: You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. (Harper Lee, U.S. Pulitzer Prize winner for the book To Kill a Mockingbird, 1926-2016)
PERCEPTION: Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. (Laura Ingalls Wilder, U.S. novelist, 1867-1957)
PERCEPTION: A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French author and aviator, 1900-1944)
PERCEPTION: When you change the way you view things, the things you look at change. (UNKNOWN SOURCE)
PERCEPTION: It's not what you look at that matters; it's what you see. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
PERCEPTION: The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. (William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature, 1865-1939)
PERCEPTION: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French author and aviator, 1900-1944)
PERCEPTION: Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. (Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher, c. 551-478 BCE)
PERCEPTION: The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. (Henri Bergson, French-Jewish philosopher who was known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality, 1859-1941)
PERCEPTION: I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. (Kurt Vonnegut, U.S. writer, 1922-2007)
PERCEPTION: Through the picture, I see reality. Through the word, I understand it. (Sven Lidman, Swedish military officer, poet, writer, and preacher, 1882-1960)
PERCEPTION: To be blind is bad, but it is worse to have eyes and not see. (Helen Adams Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)
PERCEPTION: Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden. (Plato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, 428-347 BCE)