Quotes About Perception

I don't look at people and see color and race. I see inside.

I had such a reputation, and it was sad because I felt like it so didn't represent who I really was.

I can almost see lies coming through your teeth In every word you speak you make it clear to me That you're playing wrong and your game ain't strong I've been in this too long, so just be moving on

I just never really gave myself any credit. And because of that, nobody else did either. You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

Sissy wasn't really beautiful, but men never noticed. With her deep green eyes, her shoulder-length auburn hair that swung when she moved, and the way she moved as if she enjoyed just being inside her body, men had always paid her lots of attention.

A mon sens, dans ma façon de « voir », de « comprendre », l'image, la vision que propose ma photo, ne veut surtout rien « garder », seulement proposer un sentiment de découverte, d'approfondissement soudain, de perception de ce que j'appelle ouverture, de clarté qu'on pourrait dire intuitive.

You have always been smart. You have always looked for the worst in people, and have been quick to notice when people are up to no good... But in the case of your children, you are blind.

What you wouldn't have suspected lives & trembles in the air. Those treasures of the day you keep just out of reach. These come & go in truckloads but no one stops to see them.

The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side.

Old women can see through walls.

There are truths so prosaic, so dense, so dull, that one can hardly state them without suggesting the idea of something subtler or more interesting beyond.

The inner reality of history is so unlike the back of the cards, and it takes so long to get at it, which does not prevent us from disbelieving what is current as history, but makes us wish to sift it, and dig through mud to solid foundations.

Sense sends to Imagination before Reason have judged, & Reason sends over to Imagination before decree can be acted.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Oh too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman's eye the unanswerable tear

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

Woman! experience might have told me, That all must love thee who behold thee: Surely experience might have taught Thy firmest promises are nought: But, placed in all thy charms before me, All I forget, but to adore thee.

Then away with all such from the head that is hoary! What care I for the wreaths that can only give glory?

Some women use their tongues—she look'd a lecture, Each eye a sermon, and her brow a homily, An all-in-all sufficient self-director

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers

Not in those climes where I have late been straying, Though Beauty long hath there been matchless deemed, Not in those visions to the heart displaying Forms which it sighs but to have only dreamed, Hath aught like thee in truth or fancy seemed: Nor, having seen thee, shall I vainly seek To paint those charms which varied as they beamed— To such as see thee not my words were weak; To those who gaze on thee, what language could they speak?

The more I see of men, the less I like of them; if I could but say so of women too, all would be well.