Quotes About Perception

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.

Man can embody the truth but he cannot know it.

The Light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed The Shadow of Shadows looks on the deed alone.

Who can distinguish darkness from the soul?

I have believed the best of every man, and find that to believe it is enough to make a bad man show him at his best or even a good man swing his lantern higher.

I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it For there's more enterprise In walking naked.

There is another world, but it is in this one.

Reflecting from the vantage of more than a century, we can see today how trapped the leaders of the South felt in 1860. That the snare was only partially genuine, and partially in their imaginations and fears, made it no less real to them at the time. They had to act on the basis of what they knew and believed, and the fact that subsequent events and detached dispassionate study reveal that some of their belief was chimerical does not signify.

What common language to unravel?

We sit and talk, quietly, with long lapses of silence and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes which has no speech

Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.

It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

beauty' is related not to 'loveliness' but to a state in which reality plays a part.

An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.

The dumber people think you are, the most surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.

Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.