Quotes about Perception
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
— Lewis Carroll
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
— Aldous Huxley
How we think about the world and - perhaps even more importantly - how we narrate it have a massive significance, therefore, a thing that happens and is not told ceases to exist and perishes.
— Olga Tokarczuk
The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.'
— Jennifer Konner
Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?
— Jordan Peterson
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
— Martin Luther
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
— John Lennon
I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.
— John Kennedy
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.
— Jacques Maritain
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.
— Jacques Maritain
To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.
— Zig Ziglar
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
— Albert Einstein