Quotes about Perception
There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true." Another translation says:"There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Every religion, every philosophy, every individual outlook on life tells a story of reality.
— Greg Koukl
I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.
— Henry David Thoreau
His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line.
— Jack Kerouac
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
— Mark Twain
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Where more is meant than meets the ear.
— John Milton
Abash'd the Devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is, and saw virtue in her shape how lovely.
— John Milton
Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to holdA sheep-hook.
— John Milton
Ladies, whose bright eyes rain influence, and judge the prize.
— John Milton
What if earth be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein each to other like, more than on earth is thought?
— John Milton