Quotes About Perception

It seemed to us that all people to a greater or lesser degree belong to one of these two types, that almost every one of us resembles either Don Quixote or Hamlet.

Behaviours and feelings rarely line up.

Human beings tend to be unable to estimate how biased they are.

She's not quite making sense, but no one does all the time.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.~Dag Redwing Hickory Bluefield

A snake must be treated as a snake, forgiving it every time it showed you its fangs, will not transform into a garland of flowers.

Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective.

Sometimes there is a microcosm and a macrocosm, and if you're dyslexic like me you can't tell the difference.

I am the eye that beholds... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky... For I am the one they call artist, and you call Love.

Explaining how much I you is like explaining how the water tastes from the drops of the rain

...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...

Everywhere my feet have touched on this planet has been magic, why cant others see it this way?

Rivers and rocks and trees have always been talking to us but we've forgotten how to listen.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.