Quotes about Perception
It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?
— George Eliot
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
— CS Lewis
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
— Anonymous
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
— Mark Twain
Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.
— Bill Bailey
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
— Francois Rabelais
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
— GK Chesterton
There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.
— George W. Bush
There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn't perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that's not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.
— Audrey Hepburn
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
— Virginia Woolf
I'm a vegetarian, I'm not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they're nearly fish aren't they.
— Bill Bailey