Quotes About Perception

The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Zits are beauty marks.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.

It's a misconception that Beauty is in the Eyes of beholder. In my view, Beauty must be in the Heart of beholder for her true appreciation.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

When you possess light within, you see it externally.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

There's great beauty on this world if you just have the eyes to see it.

I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.

People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn't that sad to judge others with our standards... rather than appreciate them?

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.