Quotes about Perception
Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.
- Bill Bailey
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
- Francois Rabelais
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
- GK Chesterton
There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.
- George W. Bush
There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn't perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that's not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.
- Audrey Hepburn
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
- Virginia Woolf
I'm a vegetarian, I'm not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they're nearly fish aren't they.
- Bill Bailey
The materialist thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think the materialist a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies.
- GK Chesterton
Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.
- Aristotle
Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.
- Oscar Wilde
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
- Khalil Gibran
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
- Samuel Johnson