Quotes about Perception

"An observer of human nature, sir," said Mr. Pickwick.

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman's.

An idea, like a ghost (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

He stood looking after them... as though he had perceived that they had come back accompanied by a ghost a-piece.

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

A most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

What do you mean, Phib?" asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw - not herself, but the reflection of some pleasant image in her own brain.

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.

Such,' thought Mr. Pickwick, 'are the narrow views of those philosophers who, content with examining the things that lie before them, look not to the truths which are hidden beyond.

His shoes looked too large; his sleeve looked too long; his hair looked too limp; his features looked too mean; his exposed throat looked as if a halter would have done it good.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age