Quotes about Perception
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
— Khalil Gibran
The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
— John F. Kennedy
Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.
— Michelangelo
London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
— GK Chesterton
Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
— Laurence Sterne
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
— Mark Twain
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.
— Harriet Tubman
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
— Abraham Lincoln
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
— Pablo Picasso