Quotes On: Perception

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.