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Letter "P" » perception
«Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
blunt, blunted, blunting, blunts, discrimination, mellow, mellows, perception, Personal Best, quicken, quickening, quickens, reader, sharpen, The Quickening
«Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality»
Author: Alexis Carrel
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Intuition
| Keywords:
appears, clairvoyance, close to, extrasensory, extrasensory perception, intuition, perception
«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.»
Author: C. W. Leadbeater
| About:
Perception
| Keywords:
commonest, common mistake, limit, perceive, perception, The Limit
«If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.»
Author: Don Delillo
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
central, ghoul, ghouls, If I were a, liberating, literature, lovely, margins, novel, outside, perception, the novel, work in, writer
«If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.»
«Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
intuition, intuitions, perception, unconscious
«In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
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England, intervene, intervening, lag, lagged, lagging, lags, perception, rely, time lag
«It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.»
«Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Teenage
| Keywords:
assertion, assertions, chuckle, chuckles, dense, denser, egotism, intolerance, nineteen, opaque, pathetic, perception, pitiful, self assertion, unconsciousness
«If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Perception
| Keywords:
as it is, cleansed, cleanses, doors, Doors of Perception, infinite, perception, The Doors, The Doors of Perception
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