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Quotes about Perception

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
— Dorothy Sayers
It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.
— CS Lewis
The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.
— John Maxwell
He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach to Him is, in the same proportion, a degree of happiness.
— Susanna Wesley
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
— Nikki Giovanni
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.
— Oscar Wilde
Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.
— Adrian Rogers
There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.
— Paulo Coelho
It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.
— John Keats
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
— Marcel Pagnol
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
— Ashley Montagu