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Perception Quotes
36 FAMOUS QUOTES · PERCEPTION
Perception Quotes
Read 36 famous perception quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
“Everything we see hides another thing; we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”
René Magritte
“Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.”William Shakespeare
“The perception of beauty is a moral test.”Henry David Thoreau
“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”
H. G. Wells
“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”
Kahlil Gibran
“When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.”Lao Tzu
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
David Hume
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”William Shakespeare
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
William Blake
“Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has. I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.”Ada Lovelace