Quotes about Perception

A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization.

Guns don't kill people, dads with daughters do.

I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control - when they write lies at least - because the laws can't really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it.

All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.

Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.

O Zeus, why did you give men certain ways to recognize false gold, when there's no mark, no token on the human body, to indicate which men are worthless.

Speak wisdom to a fool and he'll think you have no sense at all

For when a man of high degree meets with adversity, he feels the strangeness of his fallen state more keenly than a sufferer of long standing.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

I've got an adjective that just fits you.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.