Quotes About Perception

You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.

As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true. But I think that the South is changing, slowly but surely.

Surely, AP or the coaches are all aware everybody has agendas. Anybody who's on TV has one. You know, that's viewership and ratings and those kinds of things.

Admittedly I agreed with Rupert Murdoch that 'Page 3' is 'old fashioned' and the removal based on that is plausible, but surely 'Page 3' is an institution?

Children are more perceptive than we give them credit for: the poorest kids know their place as surely as the wealthiest children are aware of their station.

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

Beauty is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form. Its presence is unmistakable in art or in life.

If you grow up in show business, you look beyond the looking glass. So, all of the surface facades get broken.

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

Generally speaking, talk to any stand-up comedian, the people in this world who are the brightest and have the biggest smile often are struggling with a lot of things under the surface.

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.