Quotes about Perception
If I looked into a mirror, and did not see my face, I should have the sort of feeling which actually comes upon me, when I look into this living busy world, and see no reflexion of its Creator.
— John Henry Newman
Let them be fierce with you who have no experience of the difficulty with which error is discriminated from truth, and the way of life is found amid the illusions of the world.
— John Henry Newman
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!
— John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced — even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it
— John Keats
We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us—and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject.
— John Keats
When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
— John Lennon
Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.
— John Lennon
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
— John Lennon
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool.
— John Lennon
I was asked in an interview which was more important: money or love? I told the interviewer that if he had to ask the question, he wouldn't understand the answer.
— John Lennon
Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!
— John Lennon
She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on the window-pane.
— John Lennon