Quotes about Perception
I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.
— Vance Havner
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.
— Elton John
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
— William Golding
Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.
— Will Rogers
It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?
— George Eliot
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
— CS Lewis
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
— Anonymous
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
— Mark Twain
Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.
— Bo Burnham