Stoic Quotes on Perception

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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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mind virtue perception
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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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control virtue perception
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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mind perception tranquility
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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time perception
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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mind perception action
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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Author: Epictetus
Source: Discourses

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interconnectedness perception
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Author: Epictetus
Source: Discourses

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interconnectedness virtue perception
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We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Author: Seneca
Source: Letters from a Stoic

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mind perception