Quotes About Perception

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best.

And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

You shouldn't believe everything. What you see isn't always right. Is what you think truly right? Please, think about it again. A heart that obediently accepts things is fine, but shouldn't you question something just once? The truth is in a place you can't see.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

The lie is a condition of life.

People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.