Quotes about Perception
A person who looks at the table and can see the universe is a person who can see the way.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
As a culture, we place great stock in external appearance. Our attachment to physical beauty is something that we need to let go of, yet it seems that the majority of people are racing toward it.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The fear, the anger and the despair is born on the ground of wrong perception.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Contemplating a beautiful sunrise, you're not distracted by thinking about the past or the future. The more concentrated you become, the more you see the beauty all around you. So concentration is a source of happiness.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Ignorance is in each cell of our body and our consciousness. It's like a drop of ink diffused in a glass of water.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
All concepts, including those of "unity" and of duality, are foreign to experience which can be described as non-conceptual.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We tend to focus on the object and call it reality. We don't notice how our mind intervenes in our perception.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
What we lack is not an ideology or a doctrine that will save the world. What we lack is awareness of what we are, of what our true situation really is.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
As the blade of a sword cannot cut itself, so a thought cannot see itself.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.
— Ben Carson
If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.
— Don Cheadle
If I get dressed up, and my boyfriend says, 'You look gorgeous,' I kinda feel funny. I don't know if I'm particularly comfortable with being attractive.
— Toni Collette