Quotes about Perception

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits.

It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,And all their botany is Latin names.

The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

What you see is what it is!

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Don't limit God to fit in the way that you think that He is going to speak, because just about the time that we think we have Him figured out, He will oftentimes speak to us in another way. God wants us to be in tune with him, and not just in tune with one of the ways that He gives those words.