Quotes About Perception

I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.

No two people have exactly the same view of the world. Therefore, the most important science of all is the science of perception and consciousness, which holds the key to all other sciences and which has always been of paramount importance in the traditions of the Orient.

Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what's inside someone until he's tested.

Modern man is obsessed with beauty.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

You see, Allon, in the art world, perception is reality. - General Cesare Ferrari

She believed that "British cuisine" was an oxymoron

Shamron knew time could be hard on Russian men. they tended to age in the blink of an eye — young and virile one minute, wrinkled paper the next.

And your new employers?" asked the don. "Every bed has lice," said Keller. "Only the spoon," replied the don, "knows the pot's sorrows.

Only the spoon," replied the don , "knows the pot's sorrows.

In the Middle East, people of discretion or either spice or terrorists. – Nadia al-Bakari

life is just as long as the time it takes to pass by a window.

Boswell spent much of the evening lamenting his country's dreadful politics. Isherwood listened attentively. Inwardly, however, he wondered why it was that enlightened Americans always found it necessary to bash their country whenever they set foot in the mother ship. "I'm

The Germans are fond of saying that only Austria could convince the world that Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler was a German.

Invent a past for the present.

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.

Language evolves in such a way that sounds correspond with … the personal, intuitive experience of the listener.

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

Change appears to us mysterious because it is invisible. It is impossible to see a tree grow tall or a man grow old, except with the precarious imagination of hindsight. A tree is small, and later it is tall. A man is young, and later he is old. A people are at peace, and later they are at war. In each case, the intermediate states are at once infinitely many and infinitely complex, which is why they exceed our finite perceptions.

Like many parents, they equated normality with being happy and productive.

Gottfried Leibniz wrote that music's pleasure consisted of "unconscious counting" or an "arithmetical exercise of which we are unaware.

You are your stories. You are the product of all the stories you have heard and lived—and of many that you have never heard. They have shaped how you see yourself, the world, and your place in it.

We don't just treasure our memories; we are our memories

If the goal of science is to make us feel awkward and ignorant in the presence of things we once understood perfectly well, then psychology has succeeded above all others.