The dung beetle, seeing its child on the wall, thinks it sees a pearl on a thread. – Arabic Proverb
Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak. – Anon.
So, my argument is that as we become more and more scientifically literate, it – Douglas Adams
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swans egg. – Hans Christian Andersen
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. – Ruth Benedict
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. – Walter Benjamin
To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. – Henri Bergson
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro narrow chinks of his cavern. – William Blake
When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us. – Medard Boss
To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize. – Andre Breton
Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large. – George Carlin
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. – G. K. Chesterton
You are only as wise as others perceive you to be. – M. Shawn Cole
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one. – Albert Einstein
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. – Desiderius Erasmus
Maybe it – M. C. (Maurits Cornelis) Escher
However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is –in other words, not a thing, but a think. – Penelope Fitzgerald
I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person. – Martha Gellhorn
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is. – Kahlil Gibran
