Quotes about Perception

True or false, what is said about people often has as much bearing on their lives and especially on their destinies as what they do.

God is behind all things, but all things conceal God. Objects are black and humans are opaque. To love a person is to render them transparent

A harmony established contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war.

It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel.

God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt.

had it been given to our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, than according to what he thinks.

It was Gwynplaine's laugh which created the laughter of others, yet he did not laugh himself. His face laughed; his thoughts did not. The extraordinary face which chance or a special and weird industry had fashioned for him, laughed alone. Gwynplaine had nothing to do with it.

It is sometimes no less startling to meet the dog than the wolf

In fact, were it given to our human eye to see into the consciences of others, we would judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

Théodule was, we think we have mentioned, the favourite of Aunt Gillenormand, who preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits us to imagine in them every perfection.

Words can be liars, we must not blindly believe what they say.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.