Quotes about Perception
Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The naked woman's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
— John Eldredge
Shouting is obvious; not talking to each other slips by.
— John Eldredge
The moment of perceiving something beautiful confers on the perceiver the gift of life.
— John Eldredge
Thus we might not know we have a sage at the table, for he will remain silent while the "experts" prattle on and on.
— John Eldredge
Described Washington as a community of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
— John F. Kennedy
If I looked into a mirror, and did not see my face, I should have the sort of feeling which actually comes upon me, when I look into this living busy world, and see no reflexion of its Creator.
— John Henry Newman
Let them be fierce with you who have no experience of the difficulty with which error is discriminated from truth, and the way of life is found amid the illusions of the world.
— John Henry Newman
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!
— John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced — even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it
— John Keats
We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us—and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject.
— John Keats