As an African-American parent, we have to really, really worry about our children and how our children are perceived in America.
That which is seen and that which is touched are of a dream-like and illusion-like nature. Because feeling arises together with the mind, it is not [ultimately] perceived.
The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the danger of which to their own profession they, by a certain instinct, seem always to have perceived.
In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness.
US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.
Flying while Muslim is nerve-racking in itself. Every time I prepare to fly, I have to make sure the anxiety I feel from all the stares I get from the moment I walk into the airport doesn't show on my face. This is what every woman in a hijab or bearded Muslim man experiences. But we are not alone: Sikh men who wear a turban experience the same anxiety because they encounter Islamophobia by dint of being perceived as Muslim.
You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.
I am naive. I make mistakes - But I don't give a rat's arse how I am perceived!
People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.
Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.
It's hard to change adults, and it's hard to change it from a political position or a perceived political position.
I really don't care how I am perceived by people on the outside.
Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.
Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?
Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?
I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.
Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.
Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.
Divinity cannot be perceived through your brain, unless and until this light of your spirit shines into it.