15 quotes
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
— Anaïs Nin
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
— William Shakespeare
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
— Albert Einstein
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“To be is to be perceived.”
— George Berkeley
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
— Confucius
“To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
— John Milton
“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
“Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.”
— Plato
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance”
— Aristotle
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment”
— Marcus Aurelius
