Quotes about Perception
[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.
— GK Chesterton
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.
— Henry David Thoreau
As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.
— Henry David Thoreau
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
— Herman Melville
I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
— John Donne
The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.
— John Keats
They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.
— John Milton
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
— Madeleine L'Engle
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
— Mark Twain
All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.
— Pema Chodron
Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.
— Phillips Brooks