Quotes About Perception

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,And all their botany is Latin names.

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.

One man's justice is another's injustice one man's beauty another's ugliness one man's wisdom another's folly.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.

What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.

What you see is what it is!

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can't see how it is.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.