Quotes about Perception

She must admit that she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance.

How, then, she had asked herself, did one know one thing or another thing about people, sealed as they were? Only like a bee, drawn by some sweetness or sharpness in the air intangible to touch or taste, one haunted the dome-shaped hive, ranged the wastes of the air over the countries of the world alone, and then haunted the hives with their murmurs and their stirrings; the hives which were people.

If one shuts one's eyes and thinks of the novel as a whole, it would seem to be a creation owning a certain looking-glass likeness to life, though of course with simplifications and distortions innumerable.

He was amused and gratified to find that he had the power to annoy his oblivious, supercilious hostess, if he could not impress her; though he would have preferred to impress her. He

Thus, when one takes a sentence of Mr B into the mind it falls plump to the ground— dead; but when one takes a sentence of Coleridge into the mind, it explodes and gives birth to all kinds of other ideas, and that is the only sort of writing of which one can say that it has the secret of perpetual life.

That she had grown older? Would he say that, or would she see him thinking when he came back, that she had grown older?

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.

We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.

Keep up appearances whatever you do.