Here’s a few perception quotes for you:
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. -Unknown
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is – infinite. -William Blake
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. -C. W. Leadbeater
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. -Camille Pissarro
People only see what they are prepared to see. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. -William Shakespeare
If you look at your life one way, there is always cause for alarm. -Elizabeth Bowen
What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly. -Lao-tzu
Every exit is an entry somewhere. -Tom Stoppard
The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse. -Carlos Castaneda
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. -Carlos Castaneda
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we responsd to them. -Epictetus
Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius
No life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington
The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. -Agnes Repplier
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. -C. S. Lewis
There’s a few good ones in here, right?
Which of these quotes about perception jump out at you the most?
Thoughts?
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