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The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all. -- William Cowper
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity. -- William Butler Yeats
A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. -- Warren Farrell
I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular. -- Julia Leigh
Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation. -- Roger Clemens
The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind. -- Phaedrus
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve. -- Theodor Adorno
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception. -- Franz Grillparzer
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. -- Blaise Pascal
During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions. -- Jean Piaget
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening. -- Kenneth Tynan
At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences. -- Lawrence Kohlberg
Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism. -- Robert Lanza
Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that. -- David Chalmers
There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer. -- Shannon Hoon
Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him. -- Gustav Stresemann
What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument. -- Dick Dale
Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship. -- Warren Farrell
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs. -- Henri Bergson
As I look into the future, I see radical changes in both how people 'attain beauty,' and how the world perceives beauty. In general, I believe traditional beauty will be less valuable - and more uniqueness will be heralded. -- Tyra Banks
I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes. -- Daniel Tammet
God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect. -- Joseph Butler
It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone. -- Ferdinand de Saussure
Every soul and spirit has some degree of continuity with the universal spirit, which is recognized to be located not only where the individual soul lives and perceives, but also to be spread out everywhere in its essence and substance, as many Platonists and Pythagoreans have taught. -- Giordano Bruno
A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as commodities. But I think if you're able walk up to a person and get to know them, and you see their flaws and their impurities, and realise that they're like you, then you can humanise them again. -- Neil Strauss
One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see. -- Gabourey Sidibe
All of us are probably three people. We're probably the person that we think we are, and we're probably the person that you or somebody else perceives us to be, and... frankly, we're probably somewhere in the middle. And I think that it's important that there be a balance with respect to how individuals are - you know, are looked at. -- Michael Ovitz
The mind that perceives the limitation is the limitation. -- Gautama Buddha
The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies. -- Laozi
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. -- Blaise Pascal
How the world perceives you is largely out of your control. -- Sheryl Crow
Reality is what one does not perceive when one perceives it. -- Niklas Luhmann
The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting. -- Laozi
Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through its substance -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The clothes we wear send a message about how the world perceives us. -- Tim Gunn
No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be. -- Christopher Vokes
When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole. -- Rumi
In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves. -- George Crabbe
Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning. -- David Steindl-Rast
Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality. -- Chris Murray
If a person perceives a situation as real, it is real in its consequences. -- W. I. Thomas
The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor. -- David Mamet
In any election, it's important that the public perceives that the election is held fairly. -- Avi Rubin
Yaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally ... I mean remarkable. -- Cate Blanchett
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. -- William Wordsworth
The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives... -- Leonardo da Vinci
While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . . -- Hermann Broch
Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything. -- Steve Kazee
Reality is but several levels of consciousness that can be accepted or dismissed depending on what one perceives. -- Lauren Lola
Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts. -- Francois Arago
It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see. -- Gabourey Sidibe
For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone sees the invisible -- Richard of Saint Victor
What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives. -- John Mason Brown
Fear mankind most when he fights with a consuming passion for what he perceives to be true." ~ Demo Cratia. -- Farah Evers
Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing. -- Scott Jurek
... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality. -- Mary McCarthy
The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others. -- William Glasser
Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased. -- Rudolf Dreikurs
That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen. -- Edward Gordon Craig
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. -- David Hume
Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden. -- Phaedrus
[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves. -- Jacqueline Carey
There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The mind and body communicate constantly. What the mind thinks, perceives, and experiences is sent from our brain to the rest of the body. -- Herbert Benson
At the end of the day, capital is a coward. It's going to flee from wherever it perceives risk to be present in the marketplace... -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
When we erase perception, then we erase that which perceives perception. The universe dissolves and we see that it was never real to begin with. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth. -- Bruce H. Lipton
Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies. -- Charles Baudelaire
The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less. -- Samuel Johnson
In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know. -- Peter Mullan
With some CGI, I think the brain slightly perceives that things aren't real. There's no gravity, the light's not quite real, the shadows aren't quite real. -- Nick Park
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things. -- Isaac Newton
I feel like nowadays everyone perceives you the same way. You can't even have a private life away from your family; it's like everything is very hands-on! -- Kristen Stewart
A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly, offering opportunities for personal development. -- Idries Shah
The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the total and mutual gift of self. -- Dietrich von Hildebrand
When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy. -- Dave Barry
I had my 15 minutes of being the new boy of pop, like lots of people before and after me. Overnight, everyone starts treating you differently, and perceives you differently. -- Rick Astley
O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict. -- Sam Vaknin
The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host. -- Seneca the Younger
Today, I would describe a preistess as a woman who lives in two worlds at once, who perceives life on earth against a backdrop of a vast, timeless, reality. -- Jalaja Bonheim
Thinking... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas -- Rudolf Steiner
Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Each person carries an entire world within himself, and everything exists twice: once the way it is, the other the way he perceives it with his own eyes and feelings. -- Janusz Korczak
Until the world perceives that "good" cannot be applied to a thing because it is our own, and "bad" because it is another's, there is no prospect of realizing community. -- Richard M. Weaver
The public perceives there are problems with the water system, and with the efficiency of the system. We need some leadership and to provide expertise in the area of efficiency. -- Will Rogers
The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished. -- Baruch Spinoza
When the brain perceives you are no longer reproductive because your hormones are out of balance, it tries to get rid of you, and it usually activates the cancers in perimenopause. -- Suzanne Somers
There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience. -- Bernard Malamud
The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does this present life become to him, because he perceives better and sees more clearly the defects of human corruption. -- Thomas a Kempis
I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will not give people room for dissent. -- Harry Belafonte
For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will. -- Homer
There is no real time, only one moment immediately after creation where God asked humanity to join Him. What humanity perceives as time, all of history, is the hesitation in saying "Yes. -- Thomm Quackenbush
Probably our lives are full of symbols which only an unacknowledged sense perceives. Spiritual events assume a material guise, in accordance with some creative principle, but do not insist on recognition. ("Absolute Evil") -- Julian Hawthorne
How a man perceives substance dictates the amount of substance in a man. To know the depth of anyone's true substance, simply measure the weight of what consumes and excites their inner drive. -- Suzy Kassem
Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
I much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of 'blue-collar working person.' I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives as what a typical actor would have. -- Michael Cudlitz
Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt. -- Edvard Munch
The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man. -- Max Frisch
If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception. -- Aleatha Romig
This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father "in heaven," and ascends to devout adoration, "Hallowed be Thy name." The child lisping, "Abba, Father," grows into the cherub crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I believe in the semiotics of clothes. They send a message about how the world perceives us. For me it goes beyond clothes, it's grooming. It's accessories. It's the whole head to toe look. -- Tim Gunn
The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by little and in detail; one hardly perceives it.1 -- Alexis de Tocqueville
The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image. -- Gabriel Lippmann
The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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