Quotes About Perception

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

THE LUXURIES WE indulge in eventually come to seem to be necessities, as if we could not live without them. —RABBI YISRAEL SALANTER (1810–1883)

A YOUNG STUDENT asked permission to go to a wedding. Rabbi Eliyahu Lopian (1872–1970) asked him if there might be women there dressed immodestly. The student replied that he had prepared a strategy: he wouldn't look. Rabbi Lopian turned to the student and said, "I'm already over eighty years old, and blind in one eye, yet despite this, I look!

ANYONE WHO HAS PREJUDICES and whose perceptions are colored by self-interest will never see the truth in any area in which his bias operates. Only when his bias is removed will he be able to understand the truth. —RABBI ELIYAHU DESSLER (1892–1953)

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is interesting. But what they hide is vital.

every minute which passes at the beginning of a meeting before you announce your real intentions will generate either suspicion or caution.

Birds are sensitive to mispronunciation, even more sensitive than the French.

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognises something about themselves or they don't — You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking, "That was nice...now where's the cab?

It was the Cheshire Cat who had said to Alice, "I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.

God appears and God is light, to those poor souls who dwell in night, but does a human form display, to those who dwell in

Graham sniffed the air. There was an acrid, familiar smell, the heavy smoke of marijuana. Had they gone down below to smoke grass?

A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.'

T. S. Eliot was wrong about April being the cruelest month: it's January.

He understood that things appear different in daytime and nighttime, even though they are the same.

A typical dog has 20/75 vision,

D-SAT, police lingo for those who didn't see a thing.

Cicero said 'So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.'

Satchell Paige once posed the question, "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.

Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not.

Everything's dead, but good, because it's dead before coming alive, not dead after being alive. That's how I look at it.

For most of us church folks, the norm has been defined by what we have or haven't experienced up to this point. Another way of saying this is we've allowed our experience to define normal. What we experience determines what is normal; what we consider to be normal is authoritative, and thus our experience becomes our authority. What we have or haven't experienced sets the bar for what we do and don't expect from God.