Quotes about Perception
The materialist thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think the materialist a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies.
— GK Chesterton
Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.
— Aristotle
Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.
— Oscar Wilde
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
— Khalil Gibran
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
— Samuel Johnson
It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.
— Aldous Huxley
My imagination creates my reality.
— Walt Disney
We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!
— Dante Alighieri
Abortion is not an issue with the American people. It is a figment of your imagination if you think that this is an issue that is talked about a lot.
— Dan Quayle
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
— John Wooden
To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.
— St. Thomas Aquinas