Quotes about Perception

To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

What people are perceiving will dictate what their life and ultimately what your interaction is.

The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed.

World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.

The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.

It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.

Perhaps the most essential thing for a continuing education is to develop the capacity to know what you see and to understand what it means. Many people seem to go through life without seeing.

Countless things in our daily lives can awaken the almost constant state of wonder we knew as children. But sometimes to see them we must look through a different set of eyes.