Quotes About Perception

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

I am a lie that always speaks the truth.

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

If your mind is attuned to beauty, you find beauty in everything.

Maybe the Europeans once thought the earth was flat, but the Eskimos always knew it was round. One only needed to look at the earth's relatives, the sun and the moon, to know that.

We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We were left out when it comes to smelling things, he says. I would love to be able to smell a mountain and follow my nose to it.

It seemed marvelous to see life pump through that strange little body of feathers, wordless noises, milk eyes—much as life pumped through me.

The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls.

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

We believe no evil till the evil's done.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

He knows the universe, and himself he does not know.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; A wise enemy is worth more.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Oricine ?tie c? eviden?ele ascund întotdeauna sisteme. Nimic nu e mai p?rtinitor decât impar?ialitatea.

Cum reu?e?te adev?rul s? se desprind? din aparen?ele care îl ascund ?i totodat? îl constituie? Izbucne?te, într-o seara, cu brutalitate? Sau î?i croie?te drum încet în mintea oamenilor?