Quotes about Perception
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
— St. Augustine
Time is an illusion-to orators.
— Elbert Hubbard
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
— Elbert Hubbard
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.
— Pablo Picasso
People only see what they are prepared to see.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
— William Hazlitt
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.
— Soren Kierkegaard
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.
— George Bernard Shaw
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
— George Bernard Shaw
Without tact you can learn nothing.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.
— Anonymous
It gives me great strength to know that half the people I meet are below average.
— Anonymous