Quotes about Perception

Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

We are wiser than we know.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. -Is it so bad, then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood...

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world: but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages.