Quotes about Perception

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

There are millions of human beings who live narrow, darkened, frustrated lives—who live defensively—simply because they take a defensive, doubtful attitude toward themselves and, as a result, toward life in general. A person with a poor attitude becomes a magnet for unpleasant experiences. When those experiences come—as they must, because of his attitude—they tend to reinforce his poor attitude, thereby bringing more problems, and so on.

I often wonder whether a frumpy old woman can ever be quite fair in her estimate of a young and lovely one.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.

Form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form; emptiness does not differ from form, nor does form differ from emptiness; whatever is form, that is emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form.

They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

In the 1960s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

The day was counting up its birds and never got the answer right.