Quotes about Perception
Deaf people can be the sharpest hearers and blind people can be the sharpest see-ers. It's not physical. Dullness of hearing, you remember from 6:12 and 3:18, is the failure to make use of the Word heard to nurture faith and bear the fruit of obedience.
— John Piper
What must be seen is not mere news and not mere knowledge. What must be seen is light.
— John Piper
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.
— John Polkinghorne
Epistemology models ontology.
— John Polkinghorne
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
— John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
— John Wooden
The very act of looking for evil in others develops evil in those who look. By dwelling upon the faults of others, we are changed into the same image.
— Ellen White
The conduct of some professed Christians is so lacking in kindness and courtesy that their good is evil spoken of.
— Ellen White
The commendation of apparent friends is more dangerous than reproach.
— Ellen White
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
— Ellen Glasgow
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
— Ellen Glasgow
Our beliefs about the sources of joy are frequently experienced as colored imaginations that captivate our hearts.
— Elyse Fitzpatrick