Quotes About Perception

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

Tu mente genera teorías y modelos de todo lo que la rodea, e incluso de ti mismo. Si tu teoría es constructiva, servirá a tu crecimiento, y si es destructiva alimentará negativamente el autoesquema: pensarás, sentirás y actuarás a favor de la visión enfermiza y distorsionada de lo que eres. Te destruirías poco a poco.

El maestro llevaba muchos años predicando que la vida no era más que ilusión. Cuando murió su hijo, rompió a llorar. Sus discípulos se le acercaron y le dijeron: –Maestro, ¿cómo puede llorar tanto si nos ha explicado que todas las cosas de esta vida son una ilusión? –Sí —respondió el sabio, enjugándose las lágrimas que resbalaban por sus mejillas—, ¡él era una ilusión tan hermosa!

Como ya dije antes, cuando una mente rígida establece un juicio acerca de alguien o algo permanece anclada o apegada a él de manera obstinada, sin realizar ajustes sustanciales, aunque la experiencia le demuestre lo contrario.

Para ver claro, basta con cambiar la dirección de la mirada. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

La atención trabaja al servicio de los esquemas que tenemos. No es libre, sino esclava de las creencias. Vemos lo que nos conviene, sacrificamos el todo, lo real, por aquellas partes o trozos de información que concuerdan con nuestra motivación básica.

Maquiavelo dice: "Los fantasmas asustan más de lejos que de cerca".

fíjate en lo que se dice y no en quien lo dice.   El

La potencia intelectual de un hombre se mide por la dosis de humor que es capaz de utilizar. NIETZSCHE

It is as though no black man can see another black man except by looking through a white person. It is time we started seeing through our own eyes.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

what if everything that we see, everything that seems real - what if it was not real?...What if the stuff that was real was somehow hidden?... [56]

Mom stopped reading, closed the book, and started laughing her ass off. Behind her a bunch of old dudes reading newspapers looked up at her, all disapproving, like she'd just farted or something.

what if everything that we see, everything that seems real - what if is was not real?...What if the stuff that was real was somehow hidden?...[56]

By disparaging ballet he succeeded very well in convincing the boys that ballet was not for Americans, that it was European in origin and in continuing character.

Most men are more afraid of being thought cowards than of anything else, and a lot more afraid of being thought physical cowards than moral ones.

Nothing imaginative ever happens to five people at once, because each is up to only one-fifth of his personal intelligence and perception. A crowd is never equal to the intelligence of any one of its members.

She wasn't given to thinking very far, but she did a lot of intelligent feeling.

None of them were even married, and the kind of women they got a chance to know weren't likely to be changed by what a rustler would do to them.

My smile did not seem to be working. I used to have a good one. Now I get the feeling people regard it as something I just drop over my face, like a page on a flip chart.

Je problematischer der Charakter, desto problemloser erscheint ihm die Welt.

Owê war sint verswunden alliu mîniu jâr! ist mir mîn leben getroumet, oder ist ez wâr?

I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.