Quotes About Perception

One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

Pride of friend or enemy did not need any words.

quell'Austriaco un po' scansafatiche che progettava tanto lavoro per i tedeschi...

Quando si ama veramente qualcuno, disse lei, avesse anche perduto gli occhi, si riuscirebbe comunque a vederlo, e avesse anche perduto le braccia, si riuscirebbe comunque ad abbracciarlo.

In verità, qual è l'uomo che osa dire: "Questo è passato e quello è ancora da venire, questa è realtà e quello è un sogno, questa è una cosa e quella è un'altra"! Ma ogni tanto un lembo del velo che nasconde i misteri della vita si muove, e uno sguardo portentoso ci è concesso, dietro le apparenze che ci circondano.

Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.

Diaries are terrible liars. They record dramas out of context, encourage paranoia, rearrange facts, are deliberately biased and self-justifying, blind you with irrelevance, censor alternative opinion, exaggerate petty complaints into tragic emblems and, in particular, wallow in the fact that any fool can write about dejection, but describing happiness takes determination and skill. Most diaries are moans in writing, even when the person writing them is happy.

Skeptics become overwhelmed by the different and conflicting accounts of what happiness, justice, truth are all about.

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them.

We all know that it is women who make the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

At every trifle, scorn to take offence; that always shows great pride, or little sense

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have

At every word a reputation dies.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

Coffee, which makes the politicians wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

'Tis with our judgments as our watches, noneGo just alike, yet each believes his own.

Stuff the headWith all such reading as was never read:For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it,And write about it, Goddess, and about it.

Those oft are stratagems which errors seem,Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.