Quotes About Perception

Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, complexity.

Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.

A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.

Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.

We fear only what we haven't understood.

I'm also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, "Do not actually put your hand in the alligator," while terror says, "Avoid Florida entirely because alligators exist.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.

... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

Most fears are not even based on our current reality. They are the product of imagined fears conjured up in our minds - the product of our own fantasies.

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.

This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain.

The right kind of fear will keep us from doing wrong. The rough is only mental - it is rough only because your think it is.

Pot enables you to think clearly without any fear or any limits. It's a mind-expander, which is part of why it's illegal and why drugs like Vicodin are legal.

Fear is a belief - beliefs can be changed.

What an incredible drug fear is.

Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. In the darkness the man with a candle is an easy target.