Quotes about Perception

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

Blindness itself commends the excellence of sight.

But what shall men do who cannot find anything wise to say, because they are interpreting foolish things?

Times lose no time; nor do they roll idly by; through our senses they work strange operations on the mind. Behold, they went and came day by day, and by coming and going, introduced into my mind other imaginations and other remembrances; and little by little patched me up again with my old kind of delights, unto which that my sorrow gave way.

When then things to come are said to be seen, it is not themselves which as yet are not (that is, which are to be), but their causes perchance or signs are seen, which already are.

And I confess to Thee, O Lord, that I yet know not what time is, and again I confess unto Thee, O Lord, that I know that I speak this in time, and that having long spoken of time, that very "long" is not long, but by the pause of time. How then know I this, seeing I know not what time is? or is it perchance that I know not how to express what I know?

For, as I know that I am, so I know this also, that I know.

For how could I justly be blamed and prohibited from loving false things, if it were false that I loved them?

But to say there was a time when time was not, is as absurd as to say there was a man when there was no man.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.