Quotes About Perception

A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter ste.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

You cannot see the mountain near.

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits.

It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.

We die of words. We are hanged, drawn and quartered by dictionaries. We walk in the vale of shadows. It is an age of hobgoblins.

Things are of the snake.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

This world we live in is but thickened light.

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.

If the red slayer think he slays,Or if the slain think he is slain,They know not well the subtle waysI keep, and pass, and turn again.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.