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Quotes About Perception

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
~ Immanuel Kant
I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.
~ Hermann Hesse
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
~ Diogenes
I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.
~ James A. Baldwin
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
~ Walt Whitman
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
~ Anthony de Mello
Lose your mind and come to your senses.
~ Frederick Salomon Perls
I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.
~ Hannah Hoch
Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.
~ Theophile Gautier
People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.
~ Max Lucado
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
~ Anthony Doerr
I shut my eyes in order to see.
~ Paul Gauguin
Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
~ Stephen Covey
Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.
~ J.K. Rowling
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
~ Pete Seeger
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
~ Alfred Stieglitz
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
~ Charles Lamb
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
~ Axel Munthe