Quotes about Perception

That is one reason why I did not like the pictures here, dear uncle—which you think me stupid about. I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false

If we could hear the squirrel's heartbeat, the sound of the grass growing, we should die of that roar.

What is the use of being exquisite if you are not seen by the best judges?

she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that men would be so, and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

so much subtler is a human mind than the outside tissues which make a sort of blazonry or clock-face for it.

is so painful in you, Celia, that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilet, and never see the great soul in a man's face.

Who knows that about anybody?

so much that seems to me a consecration of ugliness rather than beauty.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

No one thinks of your appearance, you are so sensible and useful, Mary. Beauty is of very little consequence in reality

it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid. His school studies had not much modified that opinion...

What was fresh to her mind was worn out to his; and such capacity of thought and feeling as had ever been stimulated in him by the general life of mankind had long shrunk to a sort of dried preparation, a lifeless embalmment of knowledge.