Quotes About Perception

One of the things that price consultants have learned is that what consumers say and what they do are not the same thing.

They note that the coherent arbitrariness of salaries is tacitly recognized in an old one-liner: A wealthy man is one who earns $100 more than his wife's sister's husband.

Isn't human mind a funny thing? A bullet is a bullet, dead is dead. The reduction in probability of your demise is precisely the same in both cases. Why isn't your price the same?

The stumbling block isn't the certainty effect per se. It's the way that smart people are influenced by mere words, by the way the choices are framed.

One of Stevens's epigrams ran, 'Black is white with a bright ring around it.' The Orwellian tone of that statement is justified. Stevens knew only too well that you can get people to believe almost anything about their own perceptions with a little sleight of hand. Subjectively, there are no absolutes, only contrasts.

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing personal opinion. —PROVERBS 18:2

Gus, I know you hit your head, but you should be able to tell a few things about Tara. Like for instance she isn't printed on cheap paper. When she talks, her words don't appear in balloons over her head. And after long and hard study, I can guarantee she exists in at least three dimensions.

Standard English usage is to use the male pronoun when talking about someone whose gender is not known," Gwendolyn said. "When you avoid pronouns altogether, you really mean 'she.

The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common hatred of its neighbors.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

The middle class child says a rock is a stone; a lower class child says a rock is hard, and you throw it.

Remember, if you don't get the question right, your answer doesn't matter.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

Paranoia means having all the facts.

Things are seldom what they seem.

Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

Never assume the obvious is true.

Chandler's "She was blonde enough to make a bishop kick a hole through a stained-glass window

Prior to the 1950's, very few people had ever heard of a good witch. The term was oxymoronic, like calling someone an evil saint.

Musashi and Takuan both believed that the great mistake was being slowed or rendered immobile by what one sees, hears, feels, or thinks.