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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' chinks of his cavern.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.