Quotes about Perception
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
— JM Coetzee
Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
— JM Coetzee
And this, our life exempt from public haunts, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— JRR Tolkien
Many wonderful things in life do not come wrapped in the packages we think they should. God used a carpenter, not a king, to save the world.
— Jack Canfield
A man is literally what he thinks
— James Allen
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
— James Allen
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
— James Allen
As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be
— James Allen
Could I be your hero, or your villain? I guess it just depends in whose eyes
— James Arthur
God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.
— Luis Palau
Although she didn't have the plumbing, she deluded herself that she was the modern W.C. (about Margaret Thatcher, M.T.)
— Lydia Millet
I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.
— Lyndon B. Johnson