Quotes about Perception

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

One cannot find peace by avoiding life.

My means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.

It is art to conceal art.

Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees.

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Nothing is real until it is experienced.

Consider that everything in this world has a purpose, even if you do not understand it.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.

Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

The beauty of the world... has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle.

The eye altering, alters all.

The crow wished everything was black, the owl that everything was white.

Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee; deaden thee; as for the time it did me.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

When you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that makes it good or bad.

The waking have one world in common, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own.

It is not what he has, or even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Nothing has really happened until it has been described.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.