Quotes About Perception

Coppi? Is he the one we followed in the Giro del Piemonte? The guy who is as skinny as an asparagus? He doesn't lack courage, I'll give you that, but I think he's kind of fragile.

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage

Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.

Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.

If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride.

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.

Much better to be crazy provided you know what/where sane is.

Don't see the notes. See the music. See the story it is telling you. Allow the music to change you. Allow it to give you the courage to do whatever you need to

I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant but inside I was always quaking.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

In Chinese the word for crisis is weiji composed of the character wei which means danger and ji which means opportunity.

What do you believe reveals more about a man's character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?

At the bottom of a good deal of bravery ... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.