Quotes About Perception

A thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right or wrong intrinsically.

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference.

Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied

Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

You are what you think about.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.

Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

Photography is truth.

We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion

We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does

It's not what we don't know that hurts us, people say. It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!