Quotes About Perception

Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending upon her concept of God.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

The mind is what the mind is fed.

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often.

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

You always get what you unconsciously believe and expect.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

... humans have such a need to break everything down into right and wrong. It never occurs to you that you've made those labels up to help you define the material-and your Self.

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it.

Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.

She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing.