Quotes about Perception
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
— Samuel Johnson
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
My shallow and ebb thoughts are not the compass Christ saileth by. I leave His ways to Himself, for they are far, far above me . . . There are windings and to's and fro's in His ways, which blind bodies like us cannot see.
— Samuel Rutherford
Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple.
— Albert Einstein
For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
— Alice Walker
Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
— CS Lewis
Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.
— Deepak Chopra
For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.
— St. Augustine
Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!
— William Wordsworth
When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.
— Bo Jackson
He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.
— Cormac McCarthy
Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.
— Deepak Chopra