Quotes about Perception

His conclusion was that the human body displayed physical evidence that we are not the same person we were when we were kids, or even a season before. He said we think we are the same person, but we aren't. "People get stuck, thinking they are one kind of person, but they aren't.

Customers make buying decisions not based on what we say but on what they hear.

Why? Because the human brain, no matter what region of the world it comes from, is drawn toward clarity and away from confusion.

I couldn't tell the difference between the books they were talking about and their lives, they were just that cool.

It has been said that some people go to church to eye the clothes and others go to close their eyes.

The very animals whose smell is most offensive to us have no idea that they are offensive, and are not offensive to one another.

Young men, God does not show favoritism or respects the honors bestowed by men. He rewards no man's heritage, or wealth, or rank, or position. He does not see with man's eyes. The poorest saint that ever died in a ghetto is nobler in His sight than the richest sinner that ever died in a palace.

The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always on you. "The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good" (Proverbs 15:3), and they are eyes that read hearts as well as actions.

Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

And this, our life exempt from public haunts, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.