Quotes About Perception

Assumptions are what the brain is best at. Some days, I suspect that makes us despair.

In fact, seeing what is actually there with our conscious mind is really hard to do, and most people never learn how to do it! The brain is actively hiding the real world from us.

how we think we know what we think we know.

We think that behind that steel door of resistance there's a dragon breathing fire; if we open the door we think we'll be devoured. So often, we open the door, and as someone once said 'we don't find a fire breathing dragon, we find a gerbil in drag.

there are no absolute rights or wrongs; rather, there is less understanding and more understanding.

The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.

And so the abnormal is now normal in entertainment, because the normal is treated as subnormal in the world of the media. That, I can assure you, is consciously done.

In some countries you love your neighbors, and in others you eat them.

In our human imagination, we so often perceive our Heroes to be something larger than life. We exalt them in ways that do them a disservice....we convince ourselves that they are or were something essentially different than the rest of us.

If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?

I am well aware that objects are nearer than they appear and should be handled with care. These

IS STRANGER THAN FICTION," IT IS SAID. G. K. Chesterton, with his ever-ready wit, told us why that is so: "It is because we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

the power of a lens is incredible.

When I returned to India for the first time after years of being gone, I wondered why I remembered those small rooms as being quite large. Was it because I didn't know any better? When Charles Dickens returned to his hometown and remarked that his city had changed, someone responded that it had not changed nearly as much as he had.

they have ears, but cannot hear

Truth is stranger than fiction because we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

It is possible to hold a treasure in your hand but be ignorant of it and go for the wrapping instead. This proximity to truth and distance from its worth is repeated innumerable times in our lives.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.1 So said the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Truth and authenticity are easy casualties before the power of the lens.

The part of you that thinks of itself as human, is not human - (Maharaj Nisargadatta)

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone else. You're one of the few who put up with me. That's why I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you, somehow.

I'm ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don't watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you're doing and it's the first time, really.