Perception Quotes

"All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Do what you know and perception is converted into character."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our life is not so much threatened, As our perception."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite."
-William Blake

"Science is nothing but perception."
-Plato

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."
-William Blake

"To perceive means to immobilize. We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."
-Henri Bergson

"We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception."
-Vernon Howard

"My perception is that we're making considerable progress. But not as much progress as we thought that we would make."
-Charles E. Grassley

"Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not."
-David Dreman

"Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated."
-George Santayana

"This only reinforces the perception that, when it comes to spending, there is not a lot of consideration given to taxpayers."
-John Williamson

"The total sold is not serious. It can be absorbed, but the perception that other banks may sell and the fact central banks have diminished their commitments to gold is the bearish factor and it is a serious bearish factor."
-Bette Raptopoulos

"I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me."
-Brad Pitt

"It all adds to the general perception that politics are no good and politicians are a bunch of bums."
-Louis Post

"There's a perception that the attorney general's office is just for Albuquerque and Santa Fe."
-Geno Zamora

"Residents can't sit idly back when projects come to us for approval. We need to know what they want. The perception is that developers get everything and the residents get nothing. We have to change that."
-Jody Armstrong

"I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way."
-Lisa Kudrow

"There is a perception that energy is hot, and that there is big money to be made in the energy sector."
-Michael Cosgrove

"The findings are exciting because we are now going to apply this technique to probe the neural bases of face perception deficits in autism."
-Maximilian Riesenhuber

"The problem is, forget whether it's real or not, there is a perception that it creates a blight."
-Michael Weiner

"These companies need to somehow change the perception that old media is passé. Old media is trying to grab on to the new generation of media properties."
-Joe Bonner

"It's about being beyond the perception of reproach, where you're able to defend yourself against innuendo."
-Quin Snyder

"The perception has been sort of an 'us-against-them' mentality in the NHL for a long period of time. I think this addresses that perception, and builds the idea of a partnership."
-David Poile

"There's definitely a perception that this is a problem."
-Gabor Garai

"Public perception is not good, and that's justified."
-John Morris

"There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is."
-James Robertson

"I learned as a politician that perception is reality for someone until they learn different, and we just need to continue to work hard to be sure we get the message out about our changes."
-Judy Mendenhall