Quotes About Perception

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

One smirk, and you disassemble my armor.

Tu caricia es suave, pero tu mirada es la intención personificada.

Your touch is soft, but your gaze is intent personified.

I think women gather up into themselves what they have been through much more than we (men) do. To them, what is past becomes a real part of them, as much a part of them as a limb; to us it's always something external, at the best the rung of a ladder, at the worst a weight on the heel.

Empezó a tener una leve idea de lo que quería decir, y quedó maravillado al pensar en cuántos hombres andaban por el mundo, de aspecto vulgar y tranquilo, que ocultaban fantasías exóticas y poéticas creencias, insospechadas siquiera, hasta que la enfermedad privaba al cerebro de su gobierno.

Some kids would be much better off without the added confusion of an adult point of view.

You're a kid,' said Alexandra. 'There is no just about it. Only adults say just a kid and what the heck do they know about anything? Have you looked at their world lately?

Ah," I said with a bleak smile. "What was a quaint and silly folk belief becomes a major news item when white people believe in it.

The British are entitled always to mistrust other people but others are not entitled to mistrust the British. That is why England is known or was known abroad as 'Perfide Albion', because the British have two standards, one for themselves and one for other people.

Once men imagine a danger they soon turn it into a reality.

In being aware of the bodily experience, we must thereby be aware of aspects of the whole spatio-temporal world as mirrored within the bodily life.....my theory involves the entire abandonment of the notion that simple location is the primary way in which things are involved in space-time.

Shape? Does a fog have shape? Does the twilight? Does the onset of darkness?

Where is the pain when your pride is wounded? And why do we say that: wounded? There is no gash, no blood, not even a scratch. Which part of us hurts? The brain cells? The neurons? What, for goodness' sake, what?

All eyes turned to look at us' would be a slipshod way of putting it; eyes don't turn anyway, heads do, but as our little group joined the fringe of the assembly, there was a discernible swivelling of attention in our direction.

anybody doesn't believe in reality should try to start a dead car on a 10-degree morning:

I set an essay . . . 'Give a snail's description from the front door to the school gate.

?iir bir ?ey anlatmaz demek, anlam? yoktur, anlams?zd?r demek de?ildir. Anlamla yola ç?k?lmaz demektir." ?lhan Berk, 'Poetika', sayfa 61

Bir denizi, bir evi, bir a?ac? yok dü?ünebilir miyiz? ?iirin de böyle varolmas?. Bence ?iirin bu dedi?im yoldan varolmas?na en büyük engel anlamd?r. Nitekim denizin varolmas? da, onu d???m?zda dü?ünmekten vazgeçip, ya?am?m?za kar??t?rd???m?z zaman ba?lar. Bu çe?it varolmak onu anlamak istememizle ilgilidir

?yi bir ?iir anlamla yola ç?kmaya her zaman engeldir. Her ?eyden önce bir ?iirden düzyaz?dan anlad???m?z anlamda bir anlam beklemek, ona öyle yakla?mak ?iirin do?as?na ayk?r?d?r." ?lhan Berk, 'Poetika', sayfa 55

Magdalena doesn't ask what Rebecka is doing at the hospital. That's how Rebecka realizes that Magdalena knows. It's the things you don't say. That's what always gives a person away.

Do they really help? It's just a few pictures in an album in your head, after all. In between those scenes you do remember there are hundreds, thousands, of scenes you've forgotten. So are you remembering the truth?