Quotes About Perception

What's the detector?" Thomas asked. "It detects stuff," Brenda replied curtly. Thomas wrinkled his face at her.

People still believe what the SQ tells them to believe. Because fear is always more powerful than truth.

Sometimes they do things just to make me do the opposite of what they think I think they think I want to do.

It saddens me how little you grasp," the woman responded. "Truly.

Reiz?m m?s nemaz necenšamies ieraudz?t to, ko uzskat?m par neiesp?jamu.

Once he let go of thinking about things in such a black-and-white manner, he was able to start seeing his own thoughts and conscience as things he could mentally manipulate. That was when he started making progress.

it occurred to him that maybe the world wasn't so bad after all... gradually details he hadn't noticed began to come into focus... Almost everyone looked uneasy. They all seemed to be avoiding each other-and not just to be polite. They seemed to take serious measures to stay clear of everyone else.

felt something

Logic told him that being filthy had nothing to do with the strength of your heart or the functioning of your lungs.

and Bobette Duck. Unbelievable. Might as well be called Stinky and Butt-Ugly.

You're very observant, Jimmy," he said, and I thought it was pretty dumb to call it observant—it seemed obvious.

Dozens of people who'd been boo-hooing their eyeballs out an hour earlier were laughing like overcaffeinated hyenas, stuffing their face with a whole week's worth of SQ-rationed food. Dak wondered whether funerals for old people always ended up being such festive affairs.

idealism misconstrues agency, implying the capacity to bring about influence where that capacity may not exist or where it may only be weak.

idealism ignores the way culture is generated,

idealism mistakenly imputes a logic and rationality to culture

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.

There is no whole truth, but this is what we have, And it goes on Beyond impact, beyond reach, beyond recall…

After four hours I passed slowly from the country of 'nine-fingered people and prepare to meet thy God' into the drive-ins and motels and Homes of the Whopper but all I could see was the river.

That's all anybody has got. It depends on how strong your fantasy is, and whether you really — really — in your own mind, fit into your own fantasy, whether you measure up to what you've fantasized. I don't know what yours is, but I'll bet you don't come up to it.

I opened my eyes and saw the dark in all its original color.

When you say 'design ' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

As Talleyrand memorably said, 'The truth is whatever is plausibly asserted and confidently maintained.' If I tell you something three times you will believe it, said the Bellman, and usually we do.

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.