Quotes about Perception
Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.
— Ray Comfort
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
— Thomas Jefferson
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
— Toni Morrison
All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?
— Edith Stein
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
— Rainbow Rowell
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
— DH Lawrence
All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.
— Robert Frost
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
— Robert Frost
It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Natural selection didn't design your mind to see the world clearly; it designed your mind to have perceptions and beliefs that would help take care of your genes.
— Robert Wright