Quotes about Perception
Marner took her into his lap, trembling with an emotion mysterious to himself, at something unknown dawning on his life. Thought and feeling were so confused with him, that if he had tried to give them utterance, he could only have said that the child was come instead of the gold--that the gold had turned into the child.
— George Eliot
It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'
— Malala Yousafzai
There is a lot of speculation about what women are attracted to, and there are a lot of misconceptions.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
Wonder blasts the soul - that is, the spiritual - and the skeleton, the body - the material. Wonder interprets life through the eyes of eternity while enjoying the moment, but never lets the moment's revision exhaust the eternal.
— Ravi Zacharias
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
— Desmond Tutu
My sense of my own superiority over many of my classmates would have been much more muted if I knew that they had seen me failing miserably at woodwork or cross-stitch.
— Abhijit Banerjee
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— St. Augustine
The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.
— Edith Stein
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
— Walt Whitman
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
— Herman Melville
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
— Anais Nin
Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.
— CS Lewis