Quotes about Perception
I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!
— Anonymous
I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
— Charles Dickens
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
— Emily Bronte
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
— Francois Rabelais
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
— Anais Nin
A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.
— Thomas Paine
And unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are all wall-eyed.
— DH Lawrence
I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?
— JM Coetzee
The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.
— J. Oswald Sanders
If only we could eat our sunsets, I say, we would all be full.
— JM Coetzee
And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant
— JM Coetzee