Quotes About Perception

Clarence looks at her closely. He picks up his soda and sucks on the straw until it makes that slurping sound. He puts it aside and stares into her soul.

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish

Memories are like dreams, free of meaning save for that which we choose to impart.

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

There are all kinds of worlds in the real world,"she said softly."Most people don't know that.

Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always at zero. It is ice in the veins. Its camera is an X—ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own.

I rememeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visible.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.

To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

Here we find further argument for Gotagga's supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?

To piss across water is to piss across your reflection

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

They say the eyes speak a thousand languages, but the lips, honey, the lips hold a million secrets—and it's the secrets that attract attention.

el amor verdadero no es ciego, lo ve todo y es infinitamente indulgente

You, Nazhuret, once of Sordaling, are the lens of the world: the lens through which the world may become aware of itself. The world, on the other hand, is the only lens in which you can see yourself. It is both lenses together that make vision.

But engineers can be really naive about themselves; they think because they can design a pc board and it's right and it works, that everything they do or believe is going to be just that right.

You have taught me to be still, so that I could move properly. You have taught me to listen, so that I can speak properly. You have taught me to see, so that I might not always be seen.

She turned to John to share the joke, and he was transfixed, looking into the catastrophe of her sagging, bleary-eyed face.

He did not look so old, since age generally follows on tailoring. He did not look so terribly well bred, since class follows the same rules.

I discover that waiting may be accomplished in divers ways. And stillness has many . . . appearances, as does warmth.

One must know how to disregard the vehicle of the idea in order to consider its motivation alone.