Quotes about Perception
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor; and no man can tell what becomes of his influence.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal
— Leonard Ravenhill
Reading seeks for the sweetness of a blessed life, meditation perceives it, prayer asks for it, contemplation tastes it.
— Leonard Sweet
You are what you pay attention to. No attention, no life. Everything comes to life when you pay attention to
— Leonard Sweet
I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
Never let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
— Les Brown