Quotes about Perception
London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
— GK Chesterton
Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
— Laurence Sterne
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
— Mark Twain
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.
— Harriet Tubman
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
— Abraham Lincoln
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
— Pablo Picasso
Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
— William Faulkner
Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.
— Abraham Lincoln
I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.
— Henri Matisse
The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.
— Pope Francis