Quotes About Perception

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more. ... A man sees only what concerns him.

Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head a large flat mouth a yellow belly and a brown back.

There is great beauty in the world but you will not trip over it with every step. When a man dulls himself to beauty, the world begins to die.

If beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, then surely I would have to had been blind to not see it in her.

Isabelle was exactly Simon's type—tall, glamorous, and beautiful. Come to think of it, maybe that was everyone's type.

Their beauty was to the beauty of Miss Canal Zone as the glory of the Sun was to the glory of a lightning bug.

People strive hardest to save face, when the beauty they value is solely extrinsic.

God creates the beauty. Through my camera, I am a witness.

There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that's harder than others.

The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman --a matter of millimetres.

But sometimes that can make a girl so much more appealing. The beauty who doesn't know she's beautiful.

Voices and faces aren't manifestationsof good or bad.

Everything is nothing, but the beauty of nothing is everthing

What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.

Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it. That's human nature to believe that beauty is everything.

I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.

Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Sometimes the best things are right in front of you; it just takes some time to see them.

The best way to preserve a child's vision is to let them see things their way rather than yours.