Quotes about Perception
Change your thoughts and change your world.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck, of fortune, and chance.
— Og Mandino
Junk is in the eyes of the beholder. Some look, but others see.
— Myles Munroe
When people show you who they are; believe them.
— Oprah Winfrey
Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole world
— Oprah Winfrey
Your life is always speaking to (for) you.
— Oprah Winfrey
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
— Oscar Wilde
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
— Oscar Wilde
I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
— Oscar Wilde
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
— Oscar Wilde
It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love
— Oscar Wilde
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
— Oscar Wilde