Quotes About Perception

Those who lead a literary life seem old when they're young and young when they're old, but they're never actually either. Like a good book, they are bound by neither category nor time.

We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.

The very animals whose smell is most offensive to us have no idea that they are offensive, and are not offensive to one another.

Young men, God does not show favoritism or respects the honors bestowed by men. He rewards no man's heritage, or wealth, or rank, or position. He does not see with man's eyes. The poorest saint that ever died in a ghetto is nobler in His sight than the richest sinner that ever died in a palace.

Uma vez que sejamos levados a perceber o pecado como muito mais vil, e a compreender que ele está muito mais apegado a nós do que supúnhamos, seremos igualmente levados a confiar, a crer e a nos aproximar mais de Jesus.

Una segunda evidencia es que "veía a los prevaricadores" y se contrariaba por lo que veía a su alrededor

The very conventions of poetry were devised to encode experience, to make it less obvious and thereby more true. To make a metaphor, after all, is to describe something in terms of what it is not , the better to apprehend what it is .

A cop? You married a bloody cop?" " I married a bloody criminal," Eve muttered, "but nobody ever thinks of that.

Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?" "Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see.

When you climb the tower of a cathedral it becomes shorter, as a result of your added weight, by a very, very tiny amount, but it really does become shorter.

Where human life is concerned, it is clearly desirable that a 'safe' crack should be long enough to be visible to a bored and rather stupid inspector working in a bad light on a Friday afternoon.

The majority of men could sooner be brought to believe themselves a piece of lava in the moon than to take themselves for a self.

Hell's different things to different people and different things to the same person at different times.

Most country people had a deep-rooted disinclination to sleep away from home and a belief that, like as not, to sojourn amongst strangers was to fall among thieves. It was the way they always had lived and, like their forefathers, they travelled no further than a horse or their own legs could carry them there and back in a day.

You know, it's quite exciting to watch a professional at work if you bother to look. I mean going at a job he does really well. You look at him with new eyes from then on. In this odd sort of way I was seeing Moon for the first time.

If you believe in magic,' I (Kate) said. 'If it exists,' said Joanna, 'it doesn't matter a toss whether you believe in it or not.

Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.

Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths

Spock smiled without smiling—something McCoy had seen him do once or twice before, and damned if

En vérité, c'est si difficile d'entrer dans le monde adulte quand toutes les routes conduisent aux mêmes frontières, quand le ciel est si lointain, que les arbres n'ont plus d'yeux et que les majestueuses rivières sont recouvertes de plaques de ciment gris, que les animaux ne parlent plus et que les hommes eux-mêmes ont perdu leurs signes.»

El ruido de su reloj terminó por alcanzarlo, de manera progresiva, como si hubiera una fuga de agua en la que cada gota se sumara a la anterior; a fin de construir una estalactita quese moviese e insertase milímetro a milímetro en su cerebro.