Quotes About Perception

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

They hate us because we don't even know why they hate us.

All of that is far beyond my ability to understand it, though I have no trouble whatsoever in believing it. After all, if understanding were essential to belief, more people would fish on Sunday.

To live in delusion is to live in the comfort of ideology.

There is a great deal more to ignorance than the lack of management methods or scientific research. The evils of ignorance come first from not understanding where you are or what that means. French

a reigning logic of efficiency insists that money spent on the public good is somehow a form of indulgence. There

A civilization unable to differentiate between illusion and reality is usually believed to be at the tail end of its existence.

It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.

I'd be more impressed with a woman's mind if it jiggled pleasantly when she walked.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, kid.

The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something... To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them.

If some people see angels where others only see empty space, let them paint the angels; only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

To be taught to write or to speak — but what is the use of speaking if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think — nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

Every advance in our acuteness of perception will show us something thing new; but the old and first-discerned thing will still be there, not falsified, only modified and enriched by the new perceptions, becoming continually more beautiful in its harmony with them, and more approved as a part of the infinite truth.

The more I think of it, the more I find this conclusion impressed upon me, that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way.

you never will love art well, till you love what she mirrors better

Our objective, let it always be remembered, is not the attainment of architectural data, but the formation of taste.

But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things.