Quotes About Perception

La vérité est comme un joyau taillé, monsieur Smith. Elle a des millions de facettes. Si je t'en montre une, tu seras satisfait, mais n'oublie pas qu'il en existe bien d'autres. —

I never tell you lies, imp. But sometimes I don't tell everybody all the truth.

We were not mad youngsters, but love is not confined to the young. Indeed, true love is a phenomenon of middle age, for only then can one be sure that what one feels is not all lust. Passion is a product of love, not its source. Why do the young never see this?

People believe what they want to believe, lad. It's very hard to believe in anything that will make you unhappy.

Strange how what one saw depended on how one looked.

Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.

It's funny recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.

Like the blind men of the proverb, each individual feels a piece of the elephant, and the enormity of what he has found is overwhelming enough to convince each blindly groping observer that he has found the essence of the beast. But the whole beast is far more enormous and vastly more terrifying than society as a whole is prepared to believe.

The triad of methods used to achieve this remarkable increase in killing are desensitization, conditioning, and denial defense mechanisms.

as your heart rate goes up, your tunnel vision can get narrower and your auditory exclusion can increase.)

Epictetus, stated it well when he wrote, "It is not the thing itself, but the view we take of it which distresses us.

The Gift of Fear)

seeing the elephant.

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

They loved. They had friends. They were alive. They didn't see the world, but they saw their world--which maybe is better than seeing the world.

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.

It's not even been a two-and-two-make five sort of day, it's more like a two-and-two-make...fish

Oh, sheep. I've lost all my sobbing colours.

Da qualche parte in mezzo alle urla, il dolore leggero al fianco, la colpa, la perdita, sento una spina graffiarmi la retina... o forse è dietro, dentro al mio occhio, in fondo.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically ' they really mean, 'not really.'

Los adolescentes estadounidenses se ven a sí mismos como adultos si poseen una tarjeta de rédito, un teléfono celular y una licencia de manejar.

There's a whole generation growing up thinking...the government exists to care for them.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

I'm black—not African American. That's a term I don't like. I was born in America and I've never been to Africa. It's an absurd term. A term that Jesse Jackson crammed down the throats of the media. It's ridiculous.