Quotes About Perception

Read not for the facts but for the angles of thinking.

Jiddu Krishnamurti: "To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

The research suggests that, with a few exceptions, major events or traumas that occur even three months earlier have little to no effect on our present happiness. The reason, Gilbert goes on to explain, is that we are able to make our own happiness. We change the way we see the world so that we can feel better.

For those who were openly hostile toward her, no explanation would be understood.

the body will always be more sophisticated than the mind

Sometimes looking so hard can make one blind.

Mo?e wariaci to tacy ludzie, którzy wszystko widz? tak, jak jest, tylko uda?o im si? znale?? sposób ?eby z tym ?y?.

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.

Every idiot has an opinion. I should know because I am one of them.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,The earth, and every common sight,To me did seemAppareled in celestial light,The glory and the freshness of a dream.It is not now as it hath been of yore—Turn wheresoe'er I may,By night or day,The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

The Rainbow comes and goes,And lovely is the Rose.

The youth, who daily farther from the eastMust travel, still is Nature's priest,And by the vision splendidIs on his way attended;At length the man perceives it die away,And fade into the light of common day.

The sunshine is a glorious birth;But yet I know, where'er I go,That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.

While with an eye made quiet by the powerOf harmony, and the deep power of joy,We see into the life of things.

Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now.

Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature...

The unimaginable touch of Time.

Enough of science and art, Close up these barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart Thst watches and receives.

The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.

Sweet is the lore which nature brings; Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things— We murder to dissect.