<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Perception - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63750]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -Ziggy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46083]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -Ziggy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're often so blind. Our demand for the credentialed so colors our perception of believeability, that we wouldn't recognize God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46084]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're often so blind. Our demand for the credentialed so colors our perception of believeability, that we wouldn't recognize God if he appeared within us. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which happens in life is not as important as how you accept it. Walter Brueggeman -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46085]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which happens in life is not as important as how you accept it. Walter Brueggeman -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46086]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkein.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Anais Nin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46078]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Anais Nin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46079]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. -Kahlil Gilbran.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always. -Willa Cather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46082]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. -C. S. Lewis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not say,"it is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not say,"it is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. -Rabindranath Tagore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where we've gotten mixed up is that we believe actions follow belief. But experience creates belief.. N. Smith -Rev Cecil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where we've gotten mixed up is that we believe actions follow belief. But experience creates belief.. N. Smith -Rev Cecil Williams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46075]]></link><description><![CDATA[... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Pearl S. Buck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46063]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. -Charles Kuralt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46067]]></link><description><![CDATA[No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46056]]></link><description><![CDATA[To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little bit unsure, careful. It's funny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46058]]></link><description><![CDATA[As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives us the very quintessence of perception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46059]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives us the very quintessence of perception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pot clashes with its lidIn someones hurried kitchenA telephone boils off the hook.Outside, a car doorAn airplane pulls a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46061]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pot clashes with its lidIn someones hurried kitchenA telephone boils off the hook.Outside, a car doorAn airplane pulls a drag of cloud.muffled thunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46054]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46055]]></link><description><![CDATA[People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14757]]></link><description><![CDATA[After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3372</guid></item></channel></rss>