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"Science is nothing but perception." »Plato
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"Do what you know and perception is converted into character." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." »William Blake
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"perception is strong, sight is weak." »Miyamoto Musashi, "A Book of Five Rings"
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"All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy." »Henry David Thoreau
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"When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite." »William Blake
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"There was a perception that life here was-I won't say gray, that's hard for me-but beige." »Hanna Holborn Gray
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"Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality." »Alexis Carrel
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"All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head." »Henry David Thoreau
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"The chief proof of mans greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness." »Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
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"You bluffed me I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality." »Andrew Schneider
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"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope." »Ursula K. LeGuin
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"Through the doors of perception Down the corridors of uncertainty Into the room of self doubt Opens the window of opportunity." »Unknown
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"Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated." »George Santayana
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"There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago." »Julius Robert Oppenheimer
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"I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always." »Katherine Anne Porter
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"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world." »Hans Margolius
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"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." »Miyamoto Musashi
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"To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation." »R. A. Salvatore, Siege of Darkness
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"Our perception of reality is cultural & changing cultural views change reality.
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"We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities." »George W. Bush, September 7, 2003
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"...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought." »Albert Einstein
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