Quotes about Perception
For Sinai consisted of both a divine proclamation and a human perception. It was a moment in which God was not alone.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
We must never forget that there is a higher truth than the one we are able to comprehend at first sight.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To the religious man it is as if things stood with their backs to him, their faces turned to God, as if the glory of things consisted in their being an object of divine care.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To employ words is not the same as to understand what they mean. Moreover, the relation between words and their meanings is elastic. Words remain, while meanings are subject to change.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The human mind is one-sided. It can never grasp all of reality at once. When we look at things we see either the features which they have in common or the features that distinguish each of them.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.
— Abraham Lincoln
You can complain because a rose has thorns, or you can rejoice Because the thorns have a rose.
— Abraham Lincoln
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
— Abraham Lincoln
Boasters brag most when they cannot be detected.
— Aesop
As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.
— Alain de Botton
Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
— Alain de Botton