Quotes About Perception

His eyes were like the shoelaces of a harpsichord.

Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

If you listen repeatedly to religious speech, after enough repetitions you will actually begin to notice God and His works where there was just chaotic life going on before. What was formerly chance becomes a miracle. What was pain is now karma. What was human nature is now sin. And regardless of whether these religious memes are presented as Truth or as allegorical mythology, you're conditioned just the same.

we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments

Children listen best with their eyes. What you do is what they hear.

The fact that we can't see the beauty in something doesn't suggest that it's not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with a broad enough perspective to see it.

In a low state of mind, everything seems really bad and worse than it probably is.

While most of us wouldn't write ourselves a nasty letter, read it, and then feel offended, this is precisely what we do with regard to our thinking. We

The fact that we can't see the beauty in something doesn't suggest that it's not there. Rather, it suggests that were are not looking carefully enough or with a broad enough perspective to see it.

98. Look for the Extraordinary in the Ordinary I heard a story about two workers who were approached by a reporter. The reporter asked the first worker, "What are you doing?" His response was to complain that he was virtually a slave, an underpaid bricklayer who spent his

Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.

One of the cold hard truths that men need to get used to, is that, whenever someone has a problem with facts, the problem isn't with the facts.

The truth is, the only difference between good girls and bad girls is: Good girls just haven't been caught yet.

The woman you marry is never the same woman you divorce.

fraud, by definition, requires deceit, something women are highly evolved at.

The painter and the dancer had similar sensibilities: they were responsive, instinctual, imaginative, sympathetic, astute and unstudied.

Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. George W. Bush says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn't vouchsafe him a revelation that there were no weapons of mass destruction).

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.

Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use. The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.

Evil…doesn't mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to "the Christian majority's" private liking.

The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.