It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
C. W. Leadbeater
The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the...
Daniel Quinn
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our mi...
William James
If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the...
James Allen
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Anthony Robbins
[On Steven Spielberg] Steven Spielberg is the only person I`ve come across who fits my criteria of genius. And I don`t throw that word around. Genius is imagination and attention to detail. The ability to achieve to the minutest detail what you perceive i...
Richard Dreyfuss
You can`t think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe.
Robert Patrick
People don`t perceive me as a shy man. But I am. I am thought of mostly in terms of the parts I play. I am seen as a forbidding authority figure. I only wish I were as indomitable as everyone thinks.
Charlton Heston
I speculate to be sociable, but it`s a very big deal for me that any work I do should be well received. As for how people generally perceive me, I don`t know.
Bill Nighy
I`ve spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of `em go to other actors.
Sam Elliott
You can`t think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe. I`ve been acting for 16 years. I`ve done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there`s maybe five that are good and th...
Robert Patrick
We had two very successful forays to [U.S. regulators], ... We perceive that the U.S. negotiating position has changed and that they are prepared to decouple the two issues.
Michael Bishop
We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear w...
Amber Magner
To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
Alaida Lares
This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It`s what I perceive as country music is about.
Vince Gill
They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
imran khan
The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they`re powerful, and they`ve completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself.
Mariel Hemingway