Quotes About Perception

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Humanity lives in its fiction.

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.

Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.

Even when I cannot see him, I can hear the beautiful gallop of God's heartbeat for humanity.

Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.

Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

We are blind to each other's humanity.

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.

humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.

Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

I'm amazed at how Muslims keep their humanity after reading the Koran.

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.