Quotes of Perception - somelinesforyou

“ Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness. ”

- James Thurber

“ Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ”

- Alexander Smith

“ Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. ”

- Hans Margolius

“ Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and it is fine," is the greatest understanding you could exhibit. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. ”

- Hans Margolius

“ Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. ”

- George Santayana

“ Television is becoming a collage — there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. ”

- David Hockney

“ If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through chinks of his cavern. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ He that has more knowledge than judgement, is made for another man's use more than his own. ”

- William Penn

“ The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. ”

- Bible

“ Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge. ”

- Thomas Sowell

“ It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ”

- Carl Jung

“ Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness — I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. ”

- Bible

“ To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. ”

- Enrico Fermi

“ The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill. ”

- Ted Morgan

“ Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it. ”

- Sudie Back

“ The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. ”

- Alice Meynell

“ The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. ”

- Helen Keller

“ You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ To perceive means to immobilize…we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. ”

- Henri L. Bergson
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