Quotes about Perception

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

Standing there in her robe, that ridiculous robe, with the socks and slippers bulging from the pockets, Jonas saw a glint, the sparkle of a buried gem, in Tenley. He saw a woman worthy of love. Deserving of a man who would give her himself.

All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

The secret of ugliness consists of not irregularity, but in being uninteresting

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits.

It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.