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Quotes About Perception

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.
~ Oscar Wilde
Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
~ Al McGuire
What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.
~ Helen Keller
It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
You might be a redneck if you think people that send out graduation announcements are show-offs.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
~ Antoni Gaudi
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
~ Rebecca West
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
~ Boris Pasternak
Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.
~ Mervyn Peake
The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.
~ Antonin Dvorak
What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.
~ Robert Menzies
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
~ Bill Ayers
All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.
~ Robert Grudin
When creating great experiences, it's not so much about doing what users expect. Instead, it's about creating a design that clearly meets their needs at the instant they need it.
~ Jared Spool
To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
~ Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
~ Louis Kronenberger
I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.
~ Stephen Rea
A picture does a great job, but it's not nearly like being there.
~ Neil Armstrong
Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
~ R. H. Tawney
All great art contains an element of the irrational.
~ Edith Sitwell