Quotes about Perception
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
— John Calvin
Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.
— Jacques Maritain
Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.
— Tim LaHaye
Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.
— Roseanne Barr
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One time, a Protestant minister said, "We made Jesus blonde haired and blue eyed and very cute. We made Jesus somehow a much more feminine figure." And there's probably truth to that.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
— Frederick Buechner
Truth happens to an idea.
— William James
Truth does not belong to an individual.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
It's not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
— St. Augustine
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract
— William James