Quotes about Perception
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
— Victor Hugo
Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
— Earl Nightingale
There are millions of human beings who live narrow, darkened, frustrated lives—who live defensively—simply because they take a defensive, doubtful attitude toward themselves and, as a result, toward life in general. A person with a poor attitude becomes a magnet for unpleasant experiences. When those experiences come—as they must, because of his attitude—they tend to reinforce his poor attitude, thereby bringing more problems, and so on.
— Earl Nightingale
I often wonder whether a frumpy old woman can ever be quite fair in her estimate of a young and lovely one.
— Edith Wharton
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
— Edith Wharton
More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.
— Anonymous
Form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form; emptiness does not differ from form, nor does form differ from emptiness; whatever is form, that is emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form.
— Anonymous
They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
— Anonymous
None are so blind as those who will not see.
— Anonymous
In the 1960s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.
— Anonymous
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
— Anonymous
The day was counting up its birds and never got the answer right.
— Anonymous