Quotes About Perception

Como siempre, su madre había adivinado lo que en realidad sentía.

Como se suele decir: una mentira da media vuelta al mundo mientras la verdad aún se está calzando

What don't I know?

people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got.

La opinión pública puede equivocarse.

A lie goes halfway round the world while the truth is getting its boots on.

Na verdade, tinha a impressão de que possuía mais informação e compreendia menos as coisas.

He was the richest man in the world, yet he was always broke.

to stay, and lull them into a false sense of security. He

Before you try to take a speck out of your brother's eye, make sure you don't have a big piece of wood in your own eye, obstructing your vision, Jesus suggested.

People said that bathing was bad for your health, and Edgar never bathed in winter, but those who never bathed at all stank all their lives. Ma and Pa had taught their sons to keep themselves fresh by bathing at least once a year.

I see everything, but understand nothing!

If you remove Al Sharpton's blackness, he disappears. He's transparent. There's nothing there because he bases his whole life on his blackness. Me, I'm a black man; but my blackness has submission to my Christianity.

The President of the United States, if you remove his blackness, then just ask the question, is he a good President or is he a bad President for the United States? Just remove the blackness and make that decision.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.

Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys...

But if the strength ain't real, I recall thinking the very last thing that day, before I finally passed out, then the weakness sure enough is. Weakness is true and real. I used to accuse the kid of faking his weakness. But faking proves the weakness is real. Or you wouldn't be so weak as to fake it. No, you can't ever fake being weak. You can only fake being strong. . .

All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to different houses and different families. Nobody ever noticed.

I'd think, That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me then; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted. It don't seem like I ever have been me.

Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.

Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.

You get your visions through whatever gate you're granted.