Quotes About Perception

I am son of man and woman, so they tell me. That astounds me . . . I thought myself more!

The frontier between your taste and mine is invisible; you will never be able to grasp it, proof that the frontier itself does not exist.

Les hallucinations dangereuses peuvent venir le jour ; mais, elles viennent surtout la nuit.

L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaissance. (Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.)

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.

If I existed 200 years ago, all the other farmers in my community would be like, 'That guy is worthless! He's sitting on a rock, jumping up like a frog, coming up with weird concepts and ideas, making faces, and combing his hair into a giant pastry.' It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

if you are overdressed, it is a comment on them. If you are under dressed, it is a comment on you.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability he has.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Everyone has a beauty, but not every one sees it

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

You hear not with the ears, but with the mind; not with the mind, but with your soul.

A knowledge isn't dangerous. Only the man is dangerous.

It is a passing strange, George said. In the summer, I complained about the heat. I remember it was unbearable, but the memory no longer seems truly real. With the white ground and frost in the air, I convince myself I would give anything to sweat once more - and if I did, I do not doubt I would yearn to return to this cold. Man is a fickle creature, Richard.

The right words are always there, if a man's sharp enough to see them.

A silver speaks it's own language, does it not?

A single words are cruel burden to man if he doesn't learn not to pay attention on them.

Ignorance is never better. I may not like what I learn, but I would rather know the truth than naively give credence to something that does not exist.

S]he hardly deserved to be labeled a witch.' 'I find it hard to believe anyone could take such a thing seriously. This isn't the Dark Ages.' 'All ages are dark, Hayden,' Grey said gently.

she had meant to woo him. In her own weird, unsettling way she had simply been courting him and he'd been too stupid to realize it.