Quotes about Perception

The ambitious supposeth another man's act, praise and applause, to be his own happiness; the voluptuous his own sense and feeling; but he that is wise, his own action.

How quickly all things disappear, in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them; what is the nature of all sensible things, and particularly those which attract with the bait of pleasure or terrify by pain, or are noised abroad by vapoury fame; how worthless, and contemptible, and sordid, and perishable, and dead they are—all this it is the part of the intellectual faculty to observe. To

They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own—not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine.

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them, which you can erase right now

If he be a stranger in the world, that knows not the things that are in it; why not be a stranger as well, that wonders at the the things that are done in it?

Harbour no such opinions as he holds who does thee violence, or as he would have thee hold. See things in all their naked reality.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.

Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.