Quotes About Perception

When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

People would rather believe than know.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

You're beautiful as you feel.

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's under water. But it's certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

You are what you think you are.

If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.