Quotes about Perception

If she had looked more deeply into herself, she would have realized that what had thrilled her about the bird was his freedom, the energy of his wings in motion, not his physical body.

The words of the Lord are written in the word around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life and you will discover where.

The 'insane' always believe in first impressions.

You may be mentally exhausted, convinced that your nonexistent problems—problems you know are nonexistent—are draining you of all your energy.

You never let the cards tell their own story; you were trying to make them confirm what you imagined you knew.

I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there." "We've all felt that" "And all of us, one way or another, are insane.

It was so good that I can see love in everything, even in the eyes of a schizophrenic.

I think, knowing full well that we always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want ant as they are.

A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.