Quotes about Perception
My sense of my own superiority over many of my classmates would have been much more muted if I knew that they had seen me failing miserably at woodwork or cross-stitch.
— Abhijit Banerjee
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— St. Augustine
The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.
— Edith Stein
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
— Walt Whitman
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
— Herman Melville
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
— Anais Nin
Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.
— CS Lewis
When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.
— Tony Campolo
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
— Benjamin Disraeli
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
— Henry Ward Beecher
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
— David Joseph Schwartz
A lot of people think I'm just an athletic thug.
— Stephen Jackson