Quotes About Perception

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Would it not be true to say that North Americans prefer to use reality rather than to know it?

the world changes if two, dizzy and entwined, fall on the grass

All is visible and all elusive, all is near and can't be touched.

Laughing on what is not funny is the most craziest thing

I have tried to put the real at the service of the unreal.

J'ai fait un art selon moi. Je l'ai fait avec les yeux ouverts sur les merveilles du monde visible, et, quoi qu'on en ait pu dire, avec le souci constant d'obéir aux lois du naturel et de la vie.

I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

I think that I shall never seeA billboard lovely as a tree.Indeed, unless the billboards fallI'll never see a tree at all.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.

Sure deck your lower limbs in pants; Yours are the limbs, my sweeting. You look divine as you advance– Have you seen yourself retreating?

It's my own dream, I dreamt it, I dreamt that my hair was kempt, then I dremat my true love unkempt it.

I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.

I am tarred and feathered with Time.

I find it very hard to be fair-minded About people who go around being air-minded.

I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

Nothing is intrinsically or ultimately bad. Any situation that arises is only relatively good or bad based on many factors, including—most significantly—how you perceive the situation and how you respond to it.

[The Indian] sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.