Quotes About Perception

Poetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions.

Reason respects the differences, and Imagination the similitudes of things.

beware, whilst you assume the softness of the dove, to forget not the cunning of the serpent.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

It creates anew the universe after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence of impressions blunted by reiteration.

One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as the most middle-rate painting.

The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant.

The same people who believe that all-powerful modern truism that "Image is Everything," also believe everything they read in Vanity Fair.

People sometimes think I'm gay because I once played a gay in a movie. It's funny. Audiences don't think you're a murderer if you play a murderer, but they do think you're gay if you play a gay.

Spirits are generally invisible, and therefore not easily detected. They are crafty and sly in their approach.

True prayer intercessors have double vision. They see in the natural and they see in the spirit.

He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

The blind man is laughing at the bald head.

The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.

Sometimes," he said, "you've got to watch people a long time to see who they are.

I had noticed, even then, that there were certain women whom other women instinctively disliked, and that these women invariably had more bait in the water than the women who disliked them.

He did not understand what went on in a Chinese heart, that something like this could happen. The Indians made more sense.

He] did not understand women. It wasn't the way bartenders or comedians didn't understand women, it was the way poor people didn't understand the economy. You could stand outside the Girard Bank Building every day of your life and never guess anything about what went on in there. That's why, in their hearts, they'd always rather stick up a 7-Eleven.

he told a story about the days when he was a reporter himself and how he had gotten so close to story that he finally couldn't write it...When I stared at something long enough, the lines blurred and I could no longer see it for what it was. One thing became another.

Emily Dickinson, he "tells it slant." Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind—

If we hurry into the holy without preparing our hearts, we will see things not as they are but as we are.

I never investigate; sometimes the most terrible thing of all is to confirm what you have only imagined.