Quotes About Perception

No juzgues al Sufi por lo que tú puedas ver en él, amigo mío. ¿Por cuánto tiempo preferirás, como un niño, solo nueces y pasas?.

The imagination of the wise is truer than the knowledge of fools.

Formerly,' according to the Sheikh Abu el-Hasan Fushanji, 'being a Sufi was a reality without a name. Today it is a name without a reality.

La imaginación del sabio es más verdadera que el conocimiento de los tontos.

Truth is what you can learn, not what you think you must learn. It is what is there, not what you want to be there.

La verdad es lo que puedes aprender, no lo que crees que debes aprender. Es lo que está allí, no lo que quieres que esté allí.

Las ideologías existen únicamente donde no hay conocimiento absoluto. Si sabes algo, no tienes que creerlo o dejar de creerlo…

Someone saw Nasrudin searching for something on the ground. 'What have you lost, Mulla?' he asked. 'My key,' said the Mulla. So they both went down on their knees and looked for it. After a time the other man asked: 'Where exactly did you drop it?' 'In my own house.' 'Then why are you looking here?' 'There is more light here than inside my own house.

All'usignolo che non sappia tollerare la spina è meglio non parlare mai della rosa.

Quien que no ha visto el rostro de la confianza, no ha visto nada. Quien que no ha encontrado la complacencia, no ha encontrado nada.

Chi non abbia visto il volto della fiducia non ha visto nulla. Chi non abbia provato la contentezza non ha trovato nulla.

Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's? A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

Pensó que al menos tenían un plan. Aunque todo el mundo tenía uno. Hasta que le caía la primera hostia.

Y a veces (¡qué difícil reconocerlo!) nada está tan cerca del bien como el mal.

Quién conoce el bien?. le preguntaron a Dante y él respondió: sólo quien conoce el mal.

Precisamente "rondar las cosas por el otro lado" es lo que diferencia al poeta del científico o del político, quienes, por el contrario, prefieren tenerlas siempre de frente, muy de frente.

Three things you can be judged by your voice, your face, and your disposition.