Quotes About Perception

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

If we shadows have offended,Think but this, and all is mended,That you have but slumber'd hereWhile these visions did appear.

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance.

Think you I am no stronger than my sex,Being so father'd and so husbanded?

The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.

And then he drew a dial from his poke,And, looking on it with lack-luster eye,Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock;Thus may we see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

I have seen better faces in my timeThan stands on any shoulder that I seeBefore me at this instant.

Sweet are the uses of adversity,Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;And this our life exempt from public haunt,Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,And these are of them.

In my mind's eye, Horatio.

Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch;Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth;Between two blades, which bears the better temper;Between two horses, which doth bear him best;Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye;I have perhaps, some shallow spirit of judgment;But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.

Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour.

Beware Of entrance to a quarrel but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy rich, not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel Polonius By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet Or like a whale Polonius Very like a whale.

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all.

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

There are no facts anymore, kiddo. only good or bad fiction.

I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.