Quotes about Perception
All this time the Guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera-glass. At last he said, "You're travelling the wrong way," and shut up the window and went away.
— Lewis Carroll
How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: *was* I the same when I got up this morning?
— Lewis Carroll
It's all her fancy: she never executes nobody, you know.
— Lewis Carroll
But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything
— Lewis Carroll
Discernment could be likened to distinguishing a light in the distance.
— Lisa Bevere
For some of us, our feelings are an idol. If we feel beautiful, we believe we are beautiful. If we feel good, we believe we are good. If we live by our feelings alone, they will lie to us and it will not be long before we are led astray.
— Lisa Bevere
Judging is a defense mechanism. If anger in its purest form is temporary displeasure, then judgment is permanent rejection.
— Lisa Bevere
You are so much more than what you or others can see or touch. You are so much more than what you've known or done. You are so much more than what others think or even how your perceptions frame your self-image.
— Lisa Bevere
If you believe you are a problem, sooner or later you will begin to act like one. Likewise, if you believe you are not intrinsically a problem but a solution, you will begin to act like one.
— Lisa Bevere
W]hat is considered weakness in one gender is often strength in the other.
— Lisa Bevere
He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
— Oscar Wilde
The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.
— Benjamin Disraeli