Perception Quotes

Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside".

THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds.

The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.

In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty

What we expect, that we find.

Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass.

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen and heard. The reverse also happens.

You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am

There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.

In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.

Every time you wink the stars move.

I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I am grateful for the honors; but something within me rebelled at that word 'foreign'. I say this because when I have been in Canada, I have never heard a Canadian refer to an American as a 'foreigner'. He is just an 'American'. And, in the same way, in the United States, Canadians are not 'foreigners', they are 'Canadians'. That simple little distinction illustrates to me better than anything else the relationship between our two countries.

No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.

I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.

The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys.

You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

The very highest is barely known.Then comes that which people know and love,Then that which is feared,Then that which is despised.Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.

In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

When finger point at moon, don't look at finger or you'll miss the moon.

The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.

There's a machine that I have nothing to do with. It's called the "Tupac Machine."

I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed

A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like its hate, but it's the truth

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.

You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

We see only what we know.

Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.

At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.

Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.

You might say, 'What a dreadful day', without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react to are not dreadful. They are as they are. What is dreadful is your reaction, your inner resistance to it, and the emotion that is created by that resistance.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.