Perception Quotes

"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change" "I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen" "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" "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing with new eyes" "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" "There is more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty" "The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity" "Time moves slowly, but passes quickly." "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right" "The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances."