Quotes about Perception

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits.

It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,And all their botany is Latin names.

The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

What you see is what it is!

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.