Quotes about Perception
Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
— CS Lewis
Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.
— Deepak Chopra
For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.
— St. Augustine
Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!
— William Wordsworth
When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.
— Bo Jackson
He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.
— Cormac McCarthy
Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.
— Deepak Chopra
Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!
— Marianne Williamson
Every time you wink the stars move.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
— William Wordsworth
There are times when I draw near enough to touch Him, then I know that He has been there all the time.
— Gloria Gaither
A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.
— Alphonsus Liguori