Quotes about Perception

People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

The principle to be kept in mind is to know what we see rather than to see what we know.

The meaning of awe is to realize that life takes place under wide horizons, horizons that range beyond the span of an individual life or even the life of a nation, a generation, or an era. Awe enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple; to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

What seems to be a stone is a drama.

Replete is the world with a spiritual radiance, replete with sublime and marvelous secrets. But a small hand held against the eye hides it all," said the Baal Shem.

Time...which is eternity in disguise.

The most incomprehensible fact is that we comprehend at all.

With information we are alone; in appreciation we are with all things.

A moment of insight is a fortune, transporting us beyond the confines of measured time.