Quotes about Perception
The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.
— John Calvin
Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
— James Allen
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.
— Mark Twain
A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative.
— John Keats
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
— Dorothy Day
I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!
— Sojourner Truth
Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same
— Elton John
People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.
— Paul Washer
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.
— George Washington
A man's concept of God creates his attitude towards the hour in which he lives.
— G Campbell Morgan
Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.
— H Richard Niebuhr