Quotes about Perception

A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Now I know from this very word and deed of yours what free choice is and is capable of, namely, madness.

There is no person on earth so bad that he does not have something about him that is praiseworthy. Why is it, then, that we leave the good out of sight and feast our eyes on the unclean things? It is as though we enjoyed only looking at — if you will pardon the expression — a man's behind.

In lying fashion you ignore what even children know.

For the world does not discern what faith is and what power faith has, such a hidden and unknown thing is faith to reason. According to the statement of Christ (cf. John 14:17), "The world cannot receive the Holy Spirit"; it neither sees nor hears nor perceives Him by any sense.

Take the talents of wisdom and integrity. Without Christ, wisdom is double foolishness and integrity double sin, because they not only fail to perceive the wisdom and righteousness of Christ, but hinder and blaspheme the salvation of Christ.

For so it usually happens in the world. Righteous men are regarded as sinners and vice versa.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

An old jeep, so nobody will say I'm driving a BMW anymore. I couldn't stand that BMW, ha ha ha! BMW make pure trouble!

He [Arthur Miller] wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.