Perception

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

Aeschylus

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

Bill Cosby

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

Alan Cohen

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

Aldous Huxley

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

Alan Alexander Milne

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.

Anne Swetchine

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

Anne Swetchine

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

Anton Chekhov

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Arthur Conan Doyle

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

Anne Swetchine

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We should show life neither as it is, nor as it should be, but as we see it in our dreams.

Anton Chekhov

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes.

Friedrich Nietzche

An honest man is not the worse because a dog barks at him.

Danish proverbs

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

John Lubbock

What is whispered in the ear is often heard a hundred miles off.

Chinese proverbs

The forest has ears, the field has eyes.

German proverbs