Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, “Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.”
- Topic: Perception
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More Quotes from Epictetus
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
More on Perception
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
It is an ecological, theological, and biological reality: The more we are in tune with eternal nature, the more we will be able to hear the still small voice within and have explosions of inspirational insight.
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
