Quotes about Perception

It made me think of how thin the border was between attractive and not, and yet, if it was there, you didn't want to cross it.

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

Do you think things always have an explanation? Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.

We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.

to look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous.

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.