#perceive

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#always #disguised #doubts #god #himself

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation. ↗

— Roger Clemens

#angry #being #everybody #kind #me

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#even #facts #failed #field #focused

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#children #existence #felt #finely #injustice

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#affection #almighty #any #appetite #god

By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line. ↗

— John Byng

#enemy #engage #form #going #great

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. ↗

— Albert Camus

#chord #ears #escape #eternally #even

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#how #interests #me #people #perceive

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. ↗

— William James

#away #belief #change #differently #dissolve

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#critic #drama #good #good drama #great