Quotes about Perception
The philosopher Marar writes, "As our hearts can't stop pumping blood, so our minds can't stop pumping illusions.
— Os Guinness
Whether or not the Christian faith is true is now irrelevant. All that matters is that to more and more people in the modern world it no longer seems true.
— Os Guinness
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances
— Oscar Wilde
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
— Oscar Wilde
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
— Oscar Wilde
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
— Oscar Wilde
Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.
— Oscar Wilde
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
— Oscar Wilde
Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to?Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.
— Oscar Wilde
How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
— Oscar Wilde
A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
— Oscar Wilde
Life imitates art more than art imitates life.
— Oscar Wilde