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Quotes About Perception

I would like to be remembered, well... the Mexicans have a phrase, 'Feo fuerte y formal'. Which means; he was ugly, strong and had dignity.
~ John Wayne
Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.
~ Marshall McLuhan
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
~ William Wordsworth
The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.
~ Unknown
Glory is like a circle in the water
~ William Shakespeare
There is no dignity in television.
~ Adam Savage
As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.
~ Mason Cooley
Let the whole world tag you wrongly, brand you with evil and create a different you, and let God give you a solemn tag of dignity and see you differently, you have no problem at all!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.
~ Peter S. Beagle
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
~ Samuel Beckett
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
~ Neil Gaiman
True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.
~ Oskar Kokoschka
I have absurdly vivid dreams.
~ Erin Morgenstern
The world is full of Kings and Queens, Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
~ Ronnie James Dio
There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
~ Manuel Puig
Whatever you focus on, expands. If you see the world through your dreams, prosperity materializes before your very eyes. If you see the world through your fears, poverty multiplies all around you.
~ Robert G. Allen
Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality
~ Oliver Sacks
We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
~ Diogenes Laertius
The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.
~ Jane Roberts
Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.
~ Robert Breault
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
~ H.P. Lovecraft