Real Perception

Famous quotes containing the words real and/or perception:

“But even suppose blood should flow. Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man’s real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death. I see this blood flowing now.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)