Quotes About Perception

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing. Many a person can see a thing and believe a thing and know just as little about it as the person who does neither.

It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.

He glanced at Artison. "They couldn't even kill you if they tried." "What are you talking about? Why not?" "Because," Larria whispered, "You're already dead.

It always matters who the storyteller is. It's a lens.

could heard him.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, For it's not the same river, and it's not the same man.' – attributed to the ancient Herakleitos

They served the rich, and tried to think that they were rich.

He took a meditative puff on his stogy, and informed himself that time was a funny thing. Old Man Time just walked along, and he didn't even blow a How-do-you-do through his whiskers. He just walked on past you. Things just change.

1940s Jersey City childhood, "I grew up thinking America was an Italian country governed by the

When one is highly alert to language, then nearly everything begs to be a poem.

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

GüzelliÄŸinin doÄŸaüstü bir yan? vard?. Onun gibi bir yarat???n var olmas? mümkün deÄŸildi sanki. Bir hediye gibi görünen ÅŸey yanl?? birinin ilgisini çekmiÅŸ ve öldürülmesine neden olmuÅŸ olabilir. Ne yaz?k ki dünyadaki birçok insan?n güzellikle yüz yüze geldiÄŸindeki ilk isteÄŸi, onu yok etmektir.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as "all righty" and "yes indeedy" and hundreds of others.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

The dead appear to us in dreams, said Julian, because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see is only a projection, beamed from a great distance, light shining at us from a dead star

morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable.

cloudbursts of memory and hallucination crashing in on me from all sides

I am not unused to being confronted with my ow lies, but those of others never fail to throw me for a loop.

Welty's instruction; that I'd had a concussion. That I hadn't