Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deepak Chopra

Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

Albert Einstein

It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

Alfred North Whitehead

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

Albert Einstein

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Deepak Chopra

All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an "always future hollow", for we are always future to ourselves.

Gregory Bateson

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha! My perception, my accounting for that series, will indeed cover its next and future components," or "Next time I meet with these phenomena, I shall be able to predict their total course.

Gottfried Leibniz

I don't say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

Don Helling

I've been saying all year that our strength is in the relays.

Jane Austen

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

Philip Vannatter

Are you saying you didn't make that statement?

Toby Hall

Electric. His stuff was electric. That was unbelievable. Even some of their lefties were saying they had no chance.

Peter Ashkenaz

Pharmacists are saying there are still some bumps, but things are getting better.

Richie Benaud

If it was me, I probably wouldn't be saying anything.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He's saying that she couldn't see the evidence, couldn't see he was guilty.

Gil Gerard

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.

Martin Freeman

If everyone's just saying what they feel and doing whatever they want, there's no drama in the world. And there's also no truth to it, 'cause that's just not the truth.