Quotes About Perception

Even if I wanted to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me,

I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

You say, ëI am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.í But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.