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0599
“It’s not what you say, but what is heard.
It’s not what you show, but what is seen.
It’s not what you mean, but what is understood.
Perception is reality.” — Unknown
PERCEPTION, Communication

0600
“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.” — Leonardo Da Vinci
PERCEPTION, Knowledge, Judgment, Hate

0601  C
“Appearance deceive
And this one maxim is a standing rule:
Men are not what they seem.” — John Harvard
PERCEPTION, Judgment, Hate

0602  P
“Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.” — William James
PERCEPTION, Communication

0603  PH
“My folks were immigrants and they fell under the spell of the American legend that the streets were paved with gold. When papa got here he found out three things: (1) The streets were not paved with gold; (2) The streets were not even paved; (3) He was supposed to do the paving.” — Sam (Leonard Louis) Levinson
PERCEPTION, Wealth

0604  H
“After you’ve heard two eyewitness accounts of a motor accident, you begin to worry about history.” — John McNab
PERCEPTION, Communication

0605
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” — William Shakespeare
PERCEPTION, Thought, Sin, Goodness

0606
“To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical.” — Blaise Pascal
PERCEPTION, Hate

0607
“The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.” — Henry Ward Beecher
PERCEPTION, Wisdom

0608
“All philosophy is a form of confession.” — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
PERCEPTION, Conscience

0609  A
“It is as hard to see one’s self as to look backwards without turning round.” — Henry David Thoreau
PERCEPTION, Excellence, Thought

0610  C
“Hardly one man in ten knows himself.” — Titus Maccius Plautus
PERCEPTION, Excellence, Potential, Thought

0611
“In other living creatures, ignorance of self is nature; in man it is vice.” — Manlius Severinus Boethius
PERCEPTION, Thought, Excellence

0612
“We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” — T. S. Eliot
PERCEPTION, Vision, Excellence

0613  PA
“At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.” — Aldous Huxley
PERCEPTION, Age, Thought, Chance, Personal Management, Sadness

0614
“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
PERCEPTION, Experience, Wisdom, Thought, Originality

0615  P
“The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.” — Kahlil Gibran
PERCEPTION, Communication, Knowledge

0616  P
“One should count each day a separate life.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
PERCEPTION, Age, Death, Personal Management, Happiness, Optimism

0617
“A day is a miniature eternity.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
PERCEPTION, Personal Management, Happiness, Death

0618
“Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.” — Sir Fredrick Hoyle
PERCEPTION, Sciences

0619  HA
“When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” — Albert Einstein
PERCEPTION, Love, Sciences

0620  H
“To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.” — George Bernard Shaw
PERCEPTION, Health & Fitness, Sadness

0621  CA
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” — Dwight David Eisenhower
PERCEPTION, Courage, Self-Confidence, Potential, War & Peace

PERCEPTION Cross-References
Fame—9 • Wealth—14, 38, 44 • Excellence—59 • Optimism—128 • Courage—184 • Happiness—245 • Pessimism—274 • Adversity—288, 292, 297, 302 • Fear—324 • Sadness—369-373, 376, 379 • Attitude—403, 405-406 • Effectiveness—461 • Potential—484, 493 • Ignorance—503 • Knowledge—532, 558, 566 • Wisdom—576, 581, 584, 587 • Thought—627 • Chance—669 • Judgment—683 • Decision-Making—687 • Love—766, 770 • Honesty—787, 795 • Honor—818 • Humility—823, 827 • Hate—852, 854 • Greed—890, 894 • Character—929-931 • Principles—946, 951 • Conscience—970 • God—990 • Sin—1015, 1031 • Goodness—1036 • Sciences—1097, 1100 • Leadership—1140 • Accountability—1149 • Competition—1183 • Punishment—1229 • Politics—1231 • Law—1284, 1292 • War & Peace—1331 • Individualism—1355 • Family & Friends—1380 • Communication—1382, 1388 • Age—1427, 1433-1434, 1445 • Change—1448 • Death—1472 • Health & Fitness—1481, 1491