Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. —George Santayana More about this quote Tags: perception science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. —Robert Frost More about this quote Tags: politics perception change popularity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. —Will Cuppy More about this quote Tags: intelligence perception animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You create your own reality. —Jane Roberts More about this quote Tags: reality perception Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. —Samuel Butler More about this quote Tags: kindness people perception taste cleverness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it. —Simone de Beauvoir More about this quote Tags: perception old age self-perception Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. —John Maynard Keynes More about this quote Tags: politics opinion perception outlook conservative Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People always put their own spin on things, remember what they want to remember, and somewhere in the middle of it all is the truth—the real version. —Jessi Kirby in Golden More about this quote Tags: truth opinion memory perception Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do not believe in God, but I have a sense of the infinite. —Robert Desnos More about this quote Tags: wonder God perception belief infinite Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. —Hermann Hesse More about this quote Tags: people perception courage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is this idea now in this country that all people who succeed, succeed on their own, and all people who fail, fail on their own, whereas neither is true. The vast majority of people in this country stay where they're born. Very few people move too far from home. Rich people rarely become poor, and poor people rarely become rich. But we live in a society ruled by anecdote, so that we have no sense at all of what actually happens to most people. —Fran Lebowitz More about this quote Tags: success perception movement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. —Gaston Bachelard More about this quote Tags: life perception children Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. —Aldous Huxley More about this quote Tags: perception equality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide. —F. Scott Fitzgerald More about this quote Tags: perception speech convictions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter. —Shalom Aleichem More about this quote Tags: perception perspective enjoyment food parable Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email