Quotes about Perception

There is a great difference between being born wise and only looking it.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one's soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

I thought I would be understood without words

My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.

it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting.

For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly.

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.