Quotes about Perception
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
— Rick Warren
I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.
— CS Lewis
When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.
— Arthur C. Clarke
For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .
— Aristotle
Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
— Victor Hugo
The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
— William Hazlitt
New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.
— Malcolm X
Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
— Philip Yancey
You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.
— Brother Lawrence
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
— Richard Sibbes