Quotes about Perception
Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.
— Roseanne Barr
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One time, a Protestant minister said, "We made Jesus blonde haired and blue eyed and very cute. We made Jesus somehow a much more feminine figure." And there's probably truth to that.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
— Frederick Buechner
Truth happens to an idea.
— William James
It's not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
— St. Augustine
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract
— William James
Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.
— Greg Koukl
We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective and from being internal to external.
— Josh McDowell
And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.
— St. Augustine
Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!
— Pope Benedict XVI
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
— Stephen Covey