Quotes about Perception
When you look at a rose try to focus on its beauty, not its thorns.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you point to paradise, all the shortsighted will see is your finger.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is at the edge of intelligence that wisdom awaits.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
He who is deaf to wisdom is blind to good.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Elders in the dark see better than children in the light.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
In a group of intelligent men expect only one to be wise.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.
— Virginia Woolf
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
— Thomas Paine
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
— Booker T. Washington
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.
— Virginia Woolf
In the godly, holy truths are conveyed by way of a taste; gracious men have a spiritual palate as well as a spiritual eye. Grace alters the spiritual taste.
— Richard Sibbes
The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
— Theodore Roosevelt