It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

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

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

I wouldn’t put myself forward to do a film like ‚Changeling‘ if I thought I couldn’t pull people into a story because of all the other ways people see me.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.