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Quotes about Perception

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
— Oscar Wilde
We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside
— Richard Paul Evans
The boundaries of your life are merely a creation of the self.
— Robin Sharma
Your thoughts really, truly shape everything in your life that you feel and experience.
— Tony Robbins
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
— Victor Hugo
Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
— Earl Nightingale
There are millions of human beings who live narrow, darkened, frustrated lives—who live defensively—simply because they take a defensive, doubtful attitude toward themselves and, as a result, toward life in general. A person with a poor attitude becomes a magnet for unpleasant experiences. When those experiences come—as they must, because of his attitude—they tend to reinforce his poor attitude, thereby bringing more problems, and so on.
— Earl Nightingale
I often wonder whether a frumpy old woman can ever be quite fair in her estimate of a young and lovely one.
— Edith Wharton
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
— Edith Wharton
More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.
— Anonymous
Form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form; emptiness does not differ from form, nor does form differ from emptiness; whatever is form, that is emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form.
— Anonymous
They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
— Anonymous