Quotes About Perception

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

It was one of the marks of sentience, the ability to distinguish reality from fantasy and still indulge in fantasy. In other words: I lied, therefore I thought.

All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

Legends are always better from afar.

Dreams are rarely founded on truth.

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

No humbling of reality to precept.

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

the sunlight has neverheard of trees

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

When thy neighbours house is on fire, by its light thou mayest see thine own danger,

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

Lidah boleh dipercaya waktu merasa; wajar dicuriga sebaik bersuara.

The French in particular confuse unadorned direct language with a lack of culture or intellectual elegance.

There is no tragedy so utter that a Belgian, with the best will in the world, can't make worse.

cleverness that the French adore and always mistake for wisdom.

The only type of humor that is excused lower classness is satire, and satire is the chamber music of comedy - a joke that many people profess to enjoy, but few actually get.

Of course, only Americans can name a shop In-n-Out Burger without collapsing into a heap of dirty sniggers. You know the difference between them and us? To us, a double entendre means only one thing; to them, it means absolutely nothing.

more often than not, an exhibition is merely a misplaced object.