Quotes about Perception
'Into The Gloss,' what I think it did so well was create a conversation around beauty and make beauty the main event as opposed to the ugly step-sister, which it often is in magazines.
— Emily Weiss
My reputation was that I had bad BO, and I was poor, and I was ugly.
— Rain Dove
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
— Parker Palmer
I believe that the real difference in the American church is not between conservatives and liberals, fundamentalists and charismatics, nor between Republicans and Democrats. The real difference is between the aware and the unaware.
— Brennan Manning
People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
— Albert Ellis
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
— St. Augustine
The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.
— Albert Einstein
Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
— Albert Einstein
Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
— Albert Einstein
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
— Paulo Coelho