Quotes About Perception

Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.

Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.