Quotes About Perception

People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it

How do I know about the world? By what is within me.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.

He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

Listen, listen, listen.

I recognize that I possess a very special intellect, but at the same time, I recognize that I'm lacking in a lot of areas. But being well-rounded is greatly overrated.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.