Quotes about Perception

Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old that they open their leaves more cordially that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s.

If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

We are very much what others think of us . The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I shall not be able to find my way across the room, nor know how to conduct myself in any circumstances, nor what to feel in any relation of life.

ìCommon sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.