Quotes about Perception

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.

Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.

You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.

How were we to know we were happy?

I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black.

What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.