Quotes about Perception

Confucius said, To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Blue is light seen through a veil.

If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We

The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.

There is a world of difference between knowing something to be true in your head and experiencing the reality in your life.

When Jesus raised Lazarus to life, the miracle was so spectacular many people believed in Jesus. However, some witnessed the same miracle and were motivated instead to betray Jesus (John 11:47—48). How could people witness such an event yet miss God's message? It was a matter of spiritual perception.

Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.

Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.

For backward or forward, eternity is the same; already have we been the nothing we dread to be.

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad.