Quotes about Perception
If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.
- Marcus Aurelius
There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of God's power or presence or purity.
- George Barna
We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.
- Will Rogers
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
- Will Rogers
Common sense ain't common.
- Will Rogers
It is better for some one to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
- Will Rogers
It's not what we don't know that hurts. It's what we know that ain't so.
- Will Rogers
Things aren't what they used to be and probably never were.
- Will Rogers
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
- William Faulkner
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
- William Faulkner
Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.
- William Faulkner