Quotes About Perception

They didn't believe me," I exclaimed when I saw Gary. "I told the truth, but they didn't want to hear!

I must admit I hadn't realized my knees were so sexy.

Besides, he felt it was good policy to let some of the locals see where we lived and find out for themselves that we weren't just a bunch of crazies.

Always be aware of what you are doing.

Siempre he sospechado que la amistad está sobrevalorada. Como los estudios universitarios, la muerte y las pollas largas.

Nunca le niegues el saludo a nadie, me explicaba, no les concedas la ventaja de que sepan lo que piensas de ellos.

It must be admitted, truth compels me to admit, even here in the presence of the monument we have erected to his memory, Abraham Lincoln was not . . . either our man or our model. In his interests, in his associations, in his habits of thought, and in his prejudices, he was a white man.

When I hear that rain makes a sound, I will ask: does the sunshine make a noise?

The loose skin on her face had been lifted. Her nose was smaller. Her teeth were capped. The lines on her forehead had been erased. Her eye bags had disappeared. Her wrinkles had gone. Her breasts were much, much bigger. But she was still limping.

How did it sound?" asked Tom. "Awful! But it didn't matter how it sounded!" said Robin. "It was how it felt!

pain, though, was in his head. It was throbbing. Hot. If the feeling could be a colour, it would

As she took each step a little bubble of wind puffed out of her saggy bottom. It sounded like a duck quacking. Either she didn't realise or was extremely good at pretending she didn't realise.

An hour of basketball feels like 15 minutes. An hour on a treadmill feels like a weekend in traffic school.

Our newly capacious machines can get closer to understanding it than we can, and they, as machines, don't really understand anything at all.

Evolution has given us minds tuned for survival and only incidentally for truth.

how we predict shows us how we think the future happens and thus how the world works.

Antiquity and modernity are cut from the same cloth. That is to say, our sense of things being 'ancient' is produced—both historically and in practice—by the sense that we ourselves are 'modern'.

Risero entrambi, ricordandomi che sapevo parlare, quando ero dell'umore giusto. I miei ostacoli erano spesso miei, appunto.

What I have not seen or failed to see I leave as a gift.

To see the full miraculous essentiality of the color blue is to be grateful with no necessity for a word of thanks. To see fully, the beauty of a daughter's face is to be fully grateful without having to seek a God to thank him.

Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.

Life can find you only if you are paying real attention to something other than you own concerns, if you can hear and see the essence of otherness in the world, if you can treat the world as if it is not just a backdrop to your own journey, if you can have a relationship with the world that isn't based on triumphing over it or complaining about it.

Before they read words, children are reading pictures.

The said question of the said animal in its entirety comes down to knowing not whether the animal speaks but whether one can know what respond means. And how to distinguish a response from a reaction.