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Perception Quotes

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"To weep is to risk appearing sentimental"
Leo Buscaglia
"Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls"
Heraclitus
"She's a great genius for looking over other people's shoulders and detecting the faults they would fain conceal"
Henry James
"One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake."
Anton Chekhov
"In a dream you are never eighty"
Anne Sexton
"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced"
John Keats
"It is better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion however satisfying and reassuring"
Carl Sagan
"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth"
George Carlin
"People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for"
Harper Lee
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand"
Harper Lee
"Clocks slay time time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels only when the clock stops does time come to life."
William Faulkner
"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow"
Aesop
"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its jagged edges"
Herman Melville
"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't"
Blaise Pascal
"We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep"
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for"
John Lubbock
"The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist"
Charles Baudelaire
"Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth"
Aldous Huxley