Quotes about Perception
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
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