Perception Quotes

Here’s a few perception quotes for you:

Perception is strong and sight weak.  In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. -Unknown

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is – infinite. -William Blake

It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. -C. W. Leadbeater

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. -Camille Pissarro

People only see what they are prepared to see. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. -William Shakespeare

If you look at your life one way, there is always cause for alarm. -Elizabeth Bowen

What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly. -Lao-tzu

Every exit is an entry somewhere. -Tom Stoppard

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse. -Carlos Castaneda

The trick is in what one emphasizes.  We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong.  The amount of work is the same. -Carlos Castaneda

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we responsd to them. -Epictetus

Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus

Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted.  Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius

No life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington

The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. -Agnes Repplier

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. -C. S. Lewis

There’s a few good ones in here, right?

Which of these quotes about perception jump out at you the most?

Thoughts?