Quotes About Perception

Each, however, as he revolves about "his" truth, feels threatened if that truth is questioned. Thus, each considers anything that is not "his" truth a lie.

In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit, but as a limiting situation which they can transform.

A consciência é essa misteriosa e contraditória capacidade que tem o homem de distanciar-se das coisas para fazê-las presentes, imediatamente presentes.

Consistent with the liberating purpose of dialogical education, the object of the investigation is not persons (as if they were anatomical fragments), but rather the thought-language with which men and women refer to reality, the levels at which they perceive that reality, and their view of the world, in which their generative themes are found.

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs. In this way, they can go beyond the level of real consciousness to that of potential consciousness much more rapidly.

Consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality.

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.

essa ideia ninguém me tira matéria é mentira

por mais que eu ande nada em mim imagina o que é que menina tão pequena está fazendo numa cidade tão grande

Over the years the Indian leadership, and the educated Indian, have deliberately projected and embellished an image about Indians that they know to be untrue, and have wilfully encouraged the well-meaning but credulous foreign observer to accept it. What is worse, they have fallen in love with this image, and can no longer accept that it is untrue.

If you think you are only strong if you can lift a certain number, whatever that number is, you will feel pretty weak most of the time. Strength is not a data point; it's not a number. It's an attitude.

Russians are easy to spot, even if you dress them like Buckingham Palace guards. They are "the white people who look seriously ticked off," as Army Ranger vet Ellis Jones, RKC, has put it on our forum.

It is not I who mix the colors but your own vision,' he answered. 'I only place them next to one another on the wall in their natural state; it is the observer who mixes the colors in his own eye, like porridge. Therein lies the secret. The better the porridge, the better the painting, but you cannot make good porridge from bad buckwheat. Therefore, faith in seeing, listening, and reading is more important than faith in painting, singing, or writing.

You know, drinking milk doesn't make your boobs get any bigger.

You're like a rebellious child! Huh? You always treat me like a kid, but you're a kid yourself!

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

People see God every day; they just don't always recognize Him.

What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.

What looks like crazy on an ordinary day, looks a lot like love when you catch it in the moonlight.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.

Story belongs to the people. They are sounder judges of it than anyone else, for their senses are unspoiled and their emotions are free.

Success has got no taste or smell and when you get used to it, it's as if it didn't exist.