Quotes about Perception
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
— Henry David Thoreau
I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.
— Lauren Bacall
VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there
— Nikki Giovanni
People are making the most unbelievable statements about the other based on that kind of insistence that the person who disagrees with you fundamentally can't exist. These are political statements as well as biological and everything else.
— Nikki Giovanni
The truth of the matter is this: false ideas about truth lead to false ideas about life.
— Norman Geisler
Truth is unchanging even though our beliefs about truth change. (When we began to believe the earth was round instead of flat, the truth about the earth didn't change, only our belief about the earth changed.)
— Norman Geisler
In fact, hypocrisy in the church probably repels people more than any other factor. Someone once said the biggest problem with Christianity is Christians!)
— Norman Geisler
The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.
— Cicero
Nothing is too absurd for some philosopher to have said it.
— Cicero
What he sees often, he does not wonder at, even if he does not know why it is. If something happens which he has not seen before, he thinks it a prodigy.
— Cicero
Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at.
— Clayton M. Christensen
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
— Viktor E. Frankl