Quotes about Perception

But I wasn't worth doing wrong for---- nothing is in this world. Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.

we begin by knowing little and believing much, and we sometimes end by inverting the quantities.

But we are frightened at much that is not strictly conceivable.

I believe that people are almost always better than their neighbors think they are," said Dorothea.

It is wonderful how much uglier things will look when we only suspect that we are blamed for them

Every nerve and muscle in Rosamond was adjusted to the consciousness that she was being looked at. She was by nature an actress of parts that entered into her physique: she even acted her own character, and so well, that she did not know it to be precisely her own.)

That is one reason why I did not like the pictures here, dear uncle—which you think me stupid about. I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false

If we could hear the squirrel's heartbeat, the sound of the grass growing, we should die of that roar.

What is the use of being exquisite if you are not seen by the best judges?

she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that men would be so, and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

so much subtler is a human mind than the outside tissues which make a sort of blazonry or clock-face for it.