Quotes about Perception
I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
— John Donne
The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.
— John Keats
They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.
— John Milton
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
— Madeleine L'Engle
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
— Mark Twain
All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.
— Pema Chodron
Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.
— Phillips Brooks
When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.
— St. Thomas Aquinas