1,601 Quotes About Perception

There is something about the act of studying an unclothed body, as an artist does, that allows a person to appreciate it as pure form, regardless of the kinds of traits traditionally regarded as imperfections. In a figure drawing class, an obese woman's folds of flesh take on a kind of beauty. You can look at a man's shrunken chest or legs or buttocks with tenderness. Age is not ugly, just poignant.

كان ابي يتابع قائلا: في المحاسبة ليس المهم الأرقام، بل ما تخبرك به الأرقام فالأمر أشبه بالكلمات، إذ ليست الكلمات هي الشيء المهم بل ما تخبرك به الكلمات

You cannot say something about something without revealing something about yourself.

On the road, where change is continuous and visible, time is not; rather it is something the rider only infers. Time is not the traveler's fourth dimension - change is.

Most people use their minds to solve problems way less often than they use their minds to create problems.

We are way less often deceived by looks than we are by the act of looking.

For what does it mean to look at something, a real object in the real world, an animal, for example, and say that it is something other than what it is? It is to say that each thing leads a double life, at once in the world and in our minds, and that to deny either one of these lives is to kill the thing in both its lives at once.

When we change our perspective, we change our perception.

Our description of what we are seeing ought to be begun with the word 'apparently'.