Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? —Philip G. Hamerton More about this quote Tags: wisdom perception quotes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “perception” I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. —Bernard Baruch More about this quote Tags: humor perception age old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. —Anaïs Nin More about this quote Tags: writing perception art familiar seeing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In memory everything seems to happen to music. —Tennessee Williams More about this quote Tags: memory perception music Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email How many people long for that “past, simpler, and better world,” I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them? —R.A. Salvatore More about this quote Tags: past perception self Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way. —John Steinbeck More about this quote Tags: reality gratitude memory past perception bounty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. —Bernard Baruch More about this quote Tags: humor perception age old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. —Anaïs Nin More about this quote Tags: writing perception art familiar seeing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In memory everything seems to happen to music. —Tennessee Williams More about this quote Tags: memory perception music Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How many people long for that “past, simpler, and better world,” I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them? —R.A. Salvatore More about this quote Tags: past perception self Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way. —John Steinbeck More about this quote Tags: reality gratitude memory past perception bounty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email