Quotes about Perception

We cannot see God in the other person. Only God in us can see God in the other person.

People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads, - and then we can hardly see anything else.

Beauty is where it is perceived. When I see the sun shinning on the woods across the pond, I think this side the richer which sees it.

Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.