#perception

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. ↗

— Michael Shermer

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look at everything as though you are seeing it either for the first or last time, then your time on earth will be filled with glory ↗

— Betty Smith

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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#daughters #expectations #fathers #ideals #perception

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.. ↗

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

#seriousness #perception

Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what we find. ↗

— James A. Kitchens

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You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect. ↗

— Tsitsi Dangarembga

#observation #observations #perception #perception

That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others. ↗

— Patricia C. Wrede

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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion. ↗

— Robert Burns

#error #foolishness #perception #sense-of-self #perception

Sometimes isn’t it better to have some time and space to ourselves? We will have new perception of things. ↗

— Ai Yazawa

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