Quotes about Perception
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
— Albert Einstein
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.
— William Wordsworth
The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others again are plain honest and upright.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
— Victor Hugo
The snow in winter, the flowers in spring. There is no deeper reality.
— Marty Rubin
we're all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can't tell which is which
— Madeleine L'Engle
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
— Charles Dickens
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
— Marianne Williamson