Quotes About Perception

To the human eye, stars move very slowly. Considering their relative motion, at this moment she and I might be looking up at virtually the same sight. She in 1896, me in 1971.

Oh, they knew it was something, but it couldn't be that -- not that. That was imagination, that was superstition, there was no such thing as that. And before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

Richard Matheson

supuesto umbral de la conciencia. Ahí es donde radica la fascinación

There were no servants to maintain the house; they were indistinguishable from the guests by then.

How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough!

We'd gotten him wrong. He wasn't a dunce. He was an artist. According to these pages, he'd seen us all a good deal clearer than we'd ever seen him.

The sobs came then, faster than she could swallow. A teacher dares not cry, not a real teacher.

But later when I was a teacher, an English teacher naturally, my students preferred fiction to reality. They were in junior high, and so they preferred ANYTHING to reality.

Are all my memories true? Every word, and growing truer with the years.

What little we knew about grownups didn't seem to cover Grandma.

Mother told her she looked just like the duchess of York, but younger. Lucille returned the compliment by remarking that Mother looked just like Queen Alexandra, but younger. And Dad wondered aloud what was wrong with good American people: "You look right miserable, Dad," I told him. "So do you, Alexander, but younger," he replied.

It assumes that better means faster. By those standards, a typewriter is nothing but a very bad computer.

Earth had two kinds of people: those who could do the math and follow the science, and those who were happier with their own truths. But in our hearts' daily practice, whatever schools we went to, we all lived as if tomorrow would be a clone of now.

Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.

You miss the half of it, and more. There's always as much belowground as above. That's the trouble with people, their root problem. Life runs alongside them, unseen.

Be grateful for anything that still cuts. Dissonance is a beauty that familiarity hasn't destroyed yet.

Chance was just an order that you hadn't yet perceived.

Plant-blind. Adam's curse. We only see things that look like us.

As certain as weather coming from the west, the things people know for sure will change. There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.

For a moment, looking felt like something that happened to you rather than something you did. Not 'Are you who I think you are?' Am I who you think I am?

It's amazing how crazy things become, once you start looking at them.

Time didn't age you; memory did.