Quotes About Perception

Knowledge is true opinion.

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.N.B. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. See also Napoleon Bonaparte.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Aliter catuli longe olent, aliter sues. ("Puppies and pigs have a very different smell.")

El idiota suele ser buen lector, pero generalmente, de malos libros. No lee de izquierda a derecha, como los occidentales, ni de derecha a izquierda, como los orientales. Se las ha arreglado para leer de izquierda a izquierda

Un amigo que no entiende, simplemente, no es tan bueno como uno creía

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Nor does their understanding, which is blinded and bent only on avarice, perceive that this very thing might be more safely done by means of science.

Não ignoro que muitos outros não olham estas espécies de desgraças senão como uma simples perda de um bem, e que assim pensando eles se julgam grandes homens e homens sábios. De minha parte, não sei se são tão grandes e tão sábios como o imaginam, mas sei bem que não são homens.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish.

There is nothing like desire for preventing the things one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in one's mind.

The one question I specifically recall being asked was how a man as evil as Hitler could paint such delightful watercolors.

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."

When the candles are out all women are fair.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

I don't recall the beginning of what you said, and consequently I also don't grasp the middle sections, while the part at the end I don't approve of.

All men, while they are awake, are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Barba non facit philosophum

Sanskrit describes five layers of self, or mind: Physical, feeling, perception, intention, and consciousness.

The insula is the heart of subjective emotional experience. It's the brain region where our perception of what's happening to us matters more than what's really happening to us. The