Perception Quotes

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value" "Reality does not conform to the ideal but confirms it" "The better a work is the more it attracts criticism" "Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality" "Believe nothing you hear and only one half that you see" "The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust" "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth" "When you judge another you do not define them you define yourself" "Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change" "Experience is never limited and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue" "Nothing is in the mind which was not first in the senses, except the mind itself." "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was" "The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar" "Man is affected not by events but by the view he takes of them." "The quality of art is that it makes the world strange, and in making it strange makes it vivid and interesting and therefore makes it worth living in." "The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is" "Reality is not always probable or likely." "The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination" "Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world"