Quotes about Perception
When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.
— Ricky Gervais
The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.
— Will Rogers
We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
— William Faulkner
'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth
— William James
Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.
— William Saroyan
Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
— CS Lewis