Quotes about Perception
The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
— JM Coetzee
It's not that I lead this oblivious life where I think I've got such a great personality that people want to spend time with me. If someone has a poster of you or asks for your autograph, clearly you can't take them out on a date. It's not that interesting if someone is just interested in you.
— George Clooney
The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is why absorbing the culture all around us and its priorities is so dangerous.
— John Piper
We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.
— George Bernard Shaw
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
— Anais Nin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.
— James Dobson
Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener.
— Leonard Ravenhill
If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.
— Charles Spurgeon
I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
— William Booth
Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
— Cicero