Quotes about Perception

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

I look at it this way. I'm not an eavesdropper; I have an attention surplus disorder.

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.

Listening is more important than talking. If that were not true, God would not have given us two ears and only one mouth.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

Well, it all comes to this; there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in your own. After all, I believe in myself. I'm not so bad and silly as they think me, and I'm not consumptive, and I can write. Now that I've written it all out I feel differently about it. The only thing that still aggravates me is that Miss Potter pitied me -- pitied by a Potter!

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.