George Eliot Quotes About Perception
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say
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Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.
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She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.
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