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“Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.”

Mind States Reality Certain Awareness Ignorance Buddhism Perception State Of Mind Hallucinations

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Self Ignorance Perception Twenties Intolerance Pathetic Egotism Assertion Dense Nineteen Pitiful Unconsciousness Opaque Chuckles

Book:Mark Twain's Letters

Source: Mark Twain's Letters

“But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed the level of what appalls, what stuns, what shocks.”

Age Levels Half Century Information Changed Ignorance Perception Shock Entering Familiarity Numb Insensitive Information Age Cumulative

Author:Anna Quindlen

“The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception.”

Order Born Ignorance Perception Including Remove Affliction

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.”

Given Process Mistake Ignorance Behavior Perception Greed Replaced Given Up

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“For me, 9/11 was a game changer. It altered my perception of the security threat we faced. I took the position that Britain should be shoulder to shoulder with the U.S. It was a big decision; I didn't take it lightly, or in ignorance of its consequences. It's a big commitment for a country to give, but I believed it was the right thing to do.”

Giving Should Country Bigs Games Decision Security Position Ignorance Perception Commitment Consequence Threat Shoulders Things To Do Right Thing Britain Altered Big Decisions Game Changers

Author:Tony Blair

“The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.”

Life Reality Belief Views Dangerous Ignorance Perception Solutions Delusion Subjectivity

Book:How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication

Source: How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication

“In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.”

Should Writing Moments Use History Ignorance Perception Frozen Freeze Encyclopedia

Book:Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

Source: Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

“Humans see what they want to see.”

Want Humans Humanity Knowing Mankind Ignorance Perspective Perception Delusion Sixth Sense Willful Ignorance Perception Reality

Author:Rick Riordan

“Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.”

World Way Humans Looks Language Force Progress Ignorance Communication Perception Barriers Old Fashioned Frozen Human Progress Encyclopedia

Author:Edward de Bono

“Travelers perceptions do not always reflect the reality of a situation, and ignorance is costing the industry billions.”

Reality Situation Ignorance Industry Perception Billions Traveler

Author:Paul Dowling