Quotes about Perception
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced — even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it
— John Keats
We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us—and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject.
— John Keats
When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
— John Lennon
Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.
— John Lennon
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
— John Lennon
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool.
— John Lennon
I was asked in an interview which was more important: money or love? I told the interviewer that if he had to ask the question, he wouldn't understand the answer.
— John Lennon
Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!
— John Lennon
She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on the window-pane.
— John Lennon
When I went to school they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down Happy. They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life.
— John Lennon
More popular than Jesus More popular than Jesus is part of a remark made by John Lennon of the Beatles in a March 1966 interview, in which he argued that the public were more infatuated with the band than with Jesus, and that Christian faith was declining to the extent that it might be outlasted by rock music. Wikipedia
— John Lennon
Image is what people think we are; integrity is whar we really are.
— John Maxwell