Quotes About Perception

I don't need to see you to know that you're beautiful.

Where's your kilt? How about this, he said in a low voice. You don't ask me about haggis and bagpipes, and I won't ask you about garlic and Goodfellas.

It's beautiful. Not a lie. But tornados were beautiful too.

the liberty of the soul is lost through the windows of the eyes

You should never boast of what your friends think of you. That is true testimony which comes from the lips of foes. On the contrary, if a friend speaks in your behalf he will be considered not as a witness but a judge or a partisan.

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

To be misunderstood is the shy man's fate on every occasion; and whatever impression he endeavors to create, he is sure to convey its opposite.

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over.

The truth is, we each of us have an inborn conviction that the whole world with everybody and everything in it, was created as a sort of necessary appendage to ourselves.

Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.

And we would all try to do it in our heads, and all arrive at different results, and sneer at one another. 

But we are so blind to our own shortcomings, so wide awake to those of others. Everything that happens to us is always the other person's fault.

Will the prized treasures of to-day always be the cheap trifles of the day before?  Will rows of our willow-pattern dinner-plates be ranged above the chimneypieces of the great in the years 2000 and odd?  Will the white cups with the gold rim and the beautiful gold flower inside (species unknown), that our Sarah Janes now break in sheer light-heartedness of spirit, be carefully mended, and stood upon a bracket, and dusted only by the lady of the house? China

There is this advantage about German beer: it does not make a man drunk as the word drunk is understood in England. There is nothing objectionable about him; he is simply tired. He does not want to talk; he wants to be let alone, to go to sleep; it does not matter where— anywhere.

In a boat, I have always noticed that it is the fixed idea of each member of the crew that he is doing everything. 

No man alive has more sound commonsense than I have, if only I were capable of listening to myself. Do

if my name was on a serious work like this it would never get fair treatment. They would all say I had tried to be funny and failed.

Harris's fixed ideas that he can sing a comic song; the fixed idea, on the contrary, among those of Harris's friends who have heard him try, is that he can't and never will be able to, and that he ought not to be allowed to try.

We, in this age, do not see the beauty of that dog. We are too familiar with it. It is like the sunset and stars: we are not awed by their loveliness because they are common to our eyes. So it is with that china dog.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do.  It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me.  I can sit and look at it for hours.

Ser pobre é detalhe sem importância. Ser conhecido por ser pobre é que dói.

Obi?nuin?a te face orb la tot ceea ce nu vrei s? vezi.

Will it be the same in the future? Will the prized treasures of today be the cheap trifles of the day before? (Chapter VI)