Quotes about Perception
There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.
— William James
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.
— Anne Frank
The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found.
— Barack Obama
Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?
— CS Lewis
I'm not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there's a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time.
— Dolly Parton
Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.
— Epictetus
[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.
— GK Chesterton
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.
— Henry David Thoreau
As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.
— Henry David Thoreau
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
— Herman Melville