Quotes About Perception

We come to feel as we behave.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

Reason deceives us more often than does nature.

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke.

No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.

Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .

Nature has no outline. Imagination has.

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned into a radio frequency from another planet.

It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.