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Quotes of the Day for 28 February 2004 - Perception

A reader requested quotes on the subject of perception. Perception is tricky: although it can be distorted, it's all we have and all we know.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
     - Claudia Black

We see things not as they are, but as we are. Our perception is shaped by our previous experiences.
     - Dennis Kimbro

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
     - Henry Kissinger

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
     - Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 - 1519

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
     - Miyamoto Musashi, 1584 - 1645

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' narrow chinks of his cavern.
     - William Blake, 1757 - 1827

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