Quotes About Perception

A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ

So vast is art, so narrow human wit

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so.

All nature is but art, unknown to thee.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her; but mainly a woman hates a man for being her friend.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and still be a crook? I don't understand." "Then it's time you did. Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change you character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it...

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

What speaks to the soul, escapes our measurements.

With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.

Die gefährlichste aller Weltanschauungen ist die Weltanschauung der Leute, welche die Welt nicht angeschaut haben.

It is far more difficult to observe correctly than most men imagine; to behold is not necessarily to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that habits of exact observation are not cultivated in our schools; to this deficiency may be traced much of the fallacious reasoning, the false philosophy which prevails.

Nature has the appearance of greatness to man in proportion as she is veiled in mystery; and the ignorant are prone to put faith in everything that borders on the marvellous.

I regret not being a grove, which arms itself with leaves. I find it hard to be with minutes, they have completely confused me. It really upsets me terribly that I can be seen in reality.

When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.

What did I know about the fifty-five (give or take) countries of Africa? I carried within me one deep personal thread of one small part of it, and it had changed and colored everything

It should not be physically possible to get from the banks of the Pepani River to Wyoming in less than two days, because mentally and emotionally it is impossible.