Quotes about Perception
The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.
— Rick Warren
The way you see your life shapes your life.
— Rick Warren
You only believe the part of the Bible you do.
— Rick Warren
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
— Rick Warren
I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.
— CS Lewis
When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.
— Arthur C. Clarke
For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .
— Aristotle
Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
— Victor Hugo
The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
— William Hazlitt
New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.
— Malcolm X
Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson