Quotes About Perception

To be great is to be misunderstood.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Every wall is a door.

Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

A man is known by the books he reads.

We are wiser than we know.

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

Nature and books belong to all who see them.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.

Common sense is as rare as genius.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.