For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God either by perception or reflection we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
They do not understand Islam and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.
I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.
Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.
I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!
When someone becomes successful or rich and famous people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe and she actually wasn't that dumb but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
I don't think a female running a house is a problem a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
At the time I perceived most religious men particularly the pastors with all their talk about love faith and relationship as effeminate.
My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
Ever since the Crusades when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart not by the reason.
The world is given to me only once not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences for this barrier does not exist.
Not what we experience but how we perceive what we experience determines our fate.
Sure I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
In the revolt against idealism the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
All living beings not just animals but plants and microorganisms perceive. To survive an organic being must perceive - it must seek or at least recognize food and avoid environmental danger.
The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people jobs and education.