Quotes About Perception

Some things have to be believed in to be seen.

I saw with open eyes Singing birds sweet Sold in the shops For people to eat, Sold in the shops of Stupidity Street. I saw in vision The worm in the wheat, And in the shops nothing For people to eat; Nothing for sale in Stupidity Street.

I put on several different outfits. The advantage of not knowing who you are is you can attempt to be all things to all men … or women. My mother saw me always glancing in every mirror, every window; in the gleaming blades of knives. She said, "Jill is vain." She did not know I was looking to see who would be there this time.

Fear flushes clogged pores of perception.

And so when you perceive that you are being humiliated, look on it as the sign of a sure guarantee that grace is on the way

The young see things in black and white while the favorite adverb of the aged is "perhaps.

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

But a man lies to himself, and never more so than he does about a woman.

A Christian man ponders eternity for decades, only to find it's fifteen minutes long.

All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

The reality is more excellent than the report.

You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Blame is safer than praise.

The secret of ugliness consists of not irregularity, but in being uninteresting