#perception

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment

There is no truth. There is only perception. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#perception #truth

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#convey #funny #order #perception #slapstick

Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing. ↗

— Will Wright

#also #around #change #city #different

Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#bodily #concerned #environment #external #external world

There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#between #great #gulf #hand #meaning

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be. ↗

— Alan Hansen

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I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do. ↗

— Colin Hay

#found #hard #i #just #over

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#experienced #mental #perception #something #thing

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity. ↗

— Kenny G

#criticized #else #i #increase #know