Quotes About Perception

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

Hormones influencing the sensitivity of the person to environmental stimuli.

Abnormal radiation exposure and oxygen starvation teaches you that reality is just a perception that is derived from your immediate environmental conditions.

Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.

Equality has always been extant but some of us just didn't know it.

After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow a space on the perch was a slap in the face, and treated as such.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.

A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.

It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty.

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

There can be no excellence without insight.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Experience precedes understanding.