Quotes about Perception

So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?”

Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.

“What is this deed you have done?” Joseph declared. “Do you not know that a man like me can surely divine the truth?”

When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, “Who are these?”

The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If she had not turned away, then by now I would surely have killed you and let her live.”

So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful

For it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done.

Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the mountains!” But Zebul replied, “The shadows of the mountains look like men to you.”

But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”