Quotes About Perception

None so blind as those that will not see.

Even when God is coming towards his people in ways of mercy, he sometimes takes such methods as that they may think themselves but ill treated.

When men drive God's word from them he justly permits their delusions, and answers them according to the multitude of their idols.

Guilty consciences are apt to take good providences in a bad sense

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

Eighth Doctor: I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there.

Not every person with their eyes closed is asleep, and not every person with their eyes open can see.

Too often in our modern culture, children are perceived as "nice to have" if you've got the time and the money and are prepared to suspend, or maybe even sacrifice, your career. Young couples today perceive the blessing of children not in relation to their true purpose, but rather in relation to their "quasi purpose" of financial independence.

One man's trash is another man's treasure. And that is true not only of things but also of experiences and problems.

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

Books and people are alike in one respect: they're both full of thoughts.

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'

I don't feel like a romantic lead I guess I feel more like a character actor.

If you are uncertain, or lack evidence, about whether a particular outcome was caused by a preceding event, you are more likely to quickly associate them together," says Sang Wan Lee, a postdoctoral scholar in neuroscience at Caltech

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

You look good," I tell my reflection. "Hot?" But this last part comes out with a question mark at the end. I've never been good at sales.

Whoa," I say. "Look how tall he is." "Actors are always midgets in person," says Brandon, "But writers...they're giants.

They always blamed my reading, you know, for my having fewer friends than my brother and for my weak eyes, never thinking that because I had weak eyes and because I was shy, having a book at the ready rescued me.

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

The books do pretend, Mr. Branagan. Surely. But that is not all. Novels are filled with lies, but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

The sayers do not know and the knowers do not say.

Richard Polly, 1942–2017 "Knowing others is Wisdom, Knowing yourself is Enlightenment." —Lao-tzu

One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write .

In fairytales, knights are chivalrous, clean-shaven and wear shining armour—when in truth they were swarthy, filthy rapists and thugs. Castles are bright and gay when in truth they were grim fortresses.