Quotes about Perception
Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.
— George Eliot
By evil report and good report.
— Anonymous
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
— GK Chesterton
The eye is the jewel of the body.
— Henry David Thoreau
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
— Albert Einstein
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