"It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to."

Perception, Innocence, Children, Blindness

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"I just miss - I miss being anonymous."

Barack Obama, American President

Perception, Being

"People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so."

Jim Butcher, American Author

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"Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"The puzzle that is created by seeing the 'relative' is called worldly life (sansaar)! It would never be this way had one seen the 'Real'."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."

Mark Twain, American Author

Perception, Fools, Right, Trouble

"All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Perception, Bias, Judgment, Truth

"You can see the whole entire world in the eyes of a person who knows how to simply stand there and take all of it into him but then you can look into the eyes of someone else and the whole entire world goes away and all that's left is you."

C. JoyBell C., American Author

Perception, World, Focus, Observation

"Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Perception, Reality, Fiction, Escape, Fear

"Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Perception, Risk, Confidence, Truth, Power

"Only the eye that sees can differentiate a flower from leaves."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it."

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"Strength to your arm, then."

Motivation

"My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit."

Humor

"Lady Selyse was as tall as her husband, thin of body and thin of face, with prominent ears, a sharp nose, and the faintest hint of a mustache on her upper lip. She plucked it daily and cursed it regularly, yet it never failed to return. Her eyes were pale, her mouth stern, her voice a whip. She cracked it now."

Character

"Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?""That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him."

Courage

"Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written."

Creativity

"A man can own a woman, and a man can own a knife, but no man can own both."

Freedom

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"I just miss - I miss being anonymous."

"People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so."

"The puzzle that is created by seeing the 'relative' is called worldly life (sansaar)! It would never be this way had one seen the 'Real'."

"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."

"All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye."

"You can see the whole entire world in the eyes of a person who knows how to simply stand there and take all of it into him but then you can look into the eyes of someone else and the whole entire world goes away and all that's left is you."

"Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction."

"Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it."

"Only the eye that sees can differentiate a flower from leaves."

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"My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it."

"Strength to your arm, then."

"My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit."

"There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it."

"Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well."

"In this world the weak are the victims of the strong."

"Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?""That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him."

"Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written."

"A man can own a woman, and a man can own a knife, but no man can own both."