Quotes About Perception

Todo me resultaba extrañamente conocido y ajeno, o íntimo y reprobable

Cuantos hablan de mí no me conocen', decía a lo largo de sus diez líneas cortas (pero eran prosa), 'y al hablar me calumnian; los que me conocen callan, y al callar no me defienden; así, todos me maldicen hasta que me encuentran, mas al encontrarme descansan, y a mí me salvan, aunque yo nunca descanso.

Una novela no sólo cuenta, sino que nos permite asistir a una historia o a unos acontecimientos o a un pensamiento

Anlam aramaktan ya da bir anlam olduÄŸunu zannetmekten daha kötü bir ÅŸey yoktur. Vard?r asl?nda, daha da beteri vard?r: bir ÅŸeyin, önemsiz bur ayr?nt?n?n bile olsa anlam?n?n bize, eylemlerimize, amac?m?za ya da iÅŸlevimize baÄŸl? olduÄŸuna inanmak; iradenin ve kaderin, hatta her ikisinin girift bir bileÅŸiminin var olduÄŸuna inanmak.

Anlam aramaktan ya da bir anlam olduÄŸunu zannetmekten daha kötü bir ÅŸey yoktur. Vard?r asl?nda, daha da beteri vard?r: bir ÅŸeyin, önemsiz bir ayr?nt?n?n bile olsa anlam?n?n bize, eylemlerimize, amac?m?za ya da iÅŸlevimize baÄŸl? olduÄŸuna inanmak; iradenin ve kaderin, hatta her ikisinin girift bir bileÅŸiminin var olduÄŸuna inanmak.

No hace falta decir «te quiero» para que la otra persona sepa que lo sientes.

La felicidad se escurre, no tiene forma, se escapa por una rendija sin que lo percibamos. Es difícil reconocerla, y cuando nos damos cuenta de que nos bañamos en ella, es porque ya nos falta.

Atenea se dio cuenta de que todas las miradas estaban clavadas en ella; y, en el caso de los hecatonquiros, eso significaba muchos ojos.

Y es que, como ya apuntó hace años Arthur C. Clarke, autor de 2001: una odisea del espacio, un pueblo poco desarrollado no podrá distinguir nunca cualquier tecnología superior de la magia. Qué gran verdad.

To recognize that there can exist a color blindness to blue is as much as to admit that blue exists, which these days seems to me to be more than doubtful.

Veo las cosas tal como son. Hace muchos años que renuncié a la fantasía. No he olvidado nunca que un exceso de imaginación puede conducir a los hombres a la locura.

Se queda un momento en silencio, casi puedo oír el zumbido de lo que está pensando y me explica por fin que no sólo hay una realidad, sino muchas distintas, que cada hombre tiene la suya, y que no siempre coincide su realidad con la del prójimo.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

Life is too complicated and, as far as we can understand it in our present state of knowledge, too illogical, for it to be confined within the four corners of a fixed doctrine. The

Truth is one: (though) the wise call it by various names.

The irony is that if you're like most people, you allow everything and everyone, except you, to determine what you are feeling. Said differently, you allow external influences to dictate your emotions.

Being observant of your surroundings & practicing situational awareness at all times is not being paranoid; it's being cautious.

People's safety decreases or increases in proportion to their level of awareness.

quality is not what you put into your product or service but what your customers get out of it.

1. The brain uses images to help the conscious mind understand.

If people speak ill of you, live so that no one will believe them. —Plato

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To me, the experience of having had manic depression can never be separated from my sense of who I am. It runs through me like wine through water: everything is coloured (or tainted) by it.

We see a kind of tattoo and assume a gang member. Or we hear an accent and assume a terrorist. Politicians play off this conclusion-leaping. They use our leaping to manipulate us. Not so with cats. Being predators, they think more simply. If they fail to understand us, it's probably our fault.