Quotes about Perception
The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
— John Milton
A form of self-delusion.
— Elbert Hubbard
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
— Vernon Howard
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
— Arthur Ashe
Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.
— John Milton
Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
— CS Lewis
All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.
— Oscar Wilde
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
— Oscar Wilde
The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.
— David Bentley Hart
You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.
— Seth Godin
German people are essentially pacifists. Many still remember the experience of World War II. And they may not have seen Saddam Hussein as evil a person as a lot of other people have.
— George W. Bush