Quotes About Perception

Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.

REFLECTION ON SIZE Small people often overrate the charm of being tall; which is, that you appreciate the charm of being small.

Den som kun ta'r spøg for spøg og alvor kun alvorligt Han og hun har faktisk fattet begge dele dårligt

As Eternity has reckoned There's a lifetime in a second

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.

In heaven, learning is seeing; On earth, remembering.

Omul este visul unei umbre.

L'arte, che col suo pregio dona ogni dolcezza ai mortali, spesso fece sì che anche l'incredibile diventasse credibile.

For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be.

Funny the distinctions that grown-ups make about lying. If a kid does it, then it's automatically bad, bad, bad. If a grown-up they don't like does it and gets found out, the same rules apply, onlymore so. If they do it themselves, however, it is perfectly understandable and is one of those famous "white lies" you hear so much about.

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?

T]he distance between sympathy and sensuality is as short as that which separates those two words in the dictionary.

Not having a moustache, he was in the habit of twirling his eyebrows. "Why do you keep twirling your eyebrows?" a young lady asked him one day. "We all twirl the hairs we have, depending on our age and sex," Tito replied. The young lady thought him very witty and fell in love with him. She

I met two or three men who were very kind to me. There was a magistrate who couldn't stand priests, and a priest who didn't have a good word to say for magistrates; and there was a landlord who let furnished rooms by the hour and spoke highly of both priests and magistrates, because both were his best clients.

Behold! human beings living in an underground den…. Like ourselves… they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Science is nothing but perception.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophecy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the god they serve.