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Quotes About Perception

Anti-racist propaganda is relentless and inescapable, as if the propagandists fear that if they shut up about it for a second, they'd instantly become racists themselves.
~ Jim Goad
Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.
~ Brom, The Child Thief
One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool
~ E. W. Howe
Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
~ Thomas Jefferson
We lend power to the things we fear!
~ Orison Swett Marden
This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothing to be afraid of. If we don't get over our fears, they never will.
~ Unknown
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
My biggest fear always is that I'll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.
~ Anton Corbijn
If your reality is the same as my reality, then you're in trouble.
~ Marilyn Manson
The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.
~ Isabel Allende
For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.
~ Matt Damon
Fear and faith have a lot in common. Both of these emotions require that you believe in something that you can't see.
~ Bob Proctor
It's not the darkness that people fear; it's what they imagine into the darkness.
~ Byron Katie
There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.
~ Lemony Snicket
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
~ Gerald Brenan
If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.
~ Amelie Nothomb
I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
~ Salvador Dali
Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear.
~ Ryan Holiday
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
~ William Shakespeare
What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
~ Toni Morrison
Fear usually looks like anger.
~ Krista Tippett
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Fear appears from a false vision of reality.
~ Bokar Rinpoche