Quotes about Perception
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
- Victor Hugo
To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?
- Confucius
I look like a woman, but I think like a man.
- Dolly Parton
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
- George Bernard Shaw
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other
- Martin Luther
Light means nothing to a blind man.
- AW Tozer
Man - a figment of God's imagination.
- Mark Twain
Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.
- JC Ryle
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
- John Lennon