“Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.”
Others on Perception
Alan Watts
4 quotes“In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.”
Osho
3 quotes“Reality never comes as a problem. It is only the ideas about reality that comes as a problem.”
Tennessee Williams
2 quotes“Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos.”
Rumi
2 quotes“When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”
Alexandre Dumas
2 quotes“Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.”
Thomas Hardy
2 quotes“All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.”
G.K. Chesterton
2 quotes“Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light o...”
Neal Shusterman
2 quotes“Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.”
Leonardo da Vinci
2 quotes“The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.”
Francis Bacon
2 quotes“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.”
Stephen Covey
2 quotes“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
Epictetus
2 quotes“It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus”