“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book, and a tired man who wants a book to read.”
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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.”
Thomas Hardy
2 quotes“All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.”
Leonardo da Vinci
2 quotes“The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.”
Alexandre Dumas
2 quotes“Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.”
Rumi
2 quotes“When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”
Neal Shusterman
2 quotes“Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.”
Francis Bacon
2 quotes“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.”
Tennessee Williams
2 quotes“Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos.”
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”
Alice Hoffman
1 quote“She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow. Show her a rose and she'll see only the wasp in the center of the bloom.”