Perception Quotes

If you can see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

You get one experience of a thing when you look along it and another when you look at it. Which is the ‘true’ or ‘valid’ experience? Which tells you most about the thing? And you can hardly ask that question without noticing that for the last fifty years or so everyone has been taking the […]

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

Very few people look the part and are it too.

The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter’s facility for expression.

The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

Don’t call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.

A businessman is aggressive; a businesswoman is pushy. A businessman is good on details; she’s picky. He loses his temper at times because he’s so involved in his work; she’s bitchy. He knows how to follow through; she doesn’t know when to quit. He stands firm; she’s hard. He is a man of the world; […]

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

Simple people – are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.