Quotes about Perception
I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.
— Ronald Reagan
Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?
— Thomas Jefferson
If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures that are painted of Him.
— Thomas Merton
To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
— Dorothy Sayers
It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.
— CS Lewis
The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.
— John Maxwell
He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach to Him is, in the same proportion, a degree of happiness.
— Susanna Wesley
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
— Nikki Giovanni
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.
— Oscar Wilde
Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.
— Adrian Rogers