Quotes about Perception

All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.

Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.

O Zeus, why did you give men certain ways to recognize false gold, when there's no mark, no token on the human body, to indicate which men are worthless.

Speak wisdom to a fool and he'll think you have no sense at all

For when a man of high degree meets with adversity, he feels the strangeness of his fallen state more keenly than a sufferer of long standing.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

I've got an adjective that just fits you.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.

You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves. You just ask to be kicked around. I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it--on the inside.