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Quotes About Perception

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
~ Brendan Behan
Have you ever noticed how people who wear camouflage gear really stand out in a crowd?
~ Peter Thomas
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get out of the ghettos of your own mind has no idea what they're talking about.
~ Frederick Lenz
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
~ Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion
~ Rene Guenon
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
~ Thomas Carlyle
We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
~ Robert Frost
Miracles only happen if you believe in miracles.
~ Paulo Coelho
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
~ Diane Arbus
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
~ Eric Hoffer
Speak to people according to the development of their consciousness, for if you speak all things to all people, some cannot understand you and so fall into errors!
~ Muhammad
The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.
~ Linji Yixuan
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
~ Jessamyne West
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
~ Franz Kafka
We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
~ Lyall Watson
Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
~ William Arthur Ward
You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark.
~ Wayne Dyer
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.
~ John W. Gardner
One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
~ Salvador Dali
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
~ Abraham Lincoln