Quotes About Perception

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.

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

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view - the unity of which the eyes take in at a single glance.

To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.

Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.

If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.

The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.