Quotes About Perception

despite rumors to the contrary, you're on the side of the angels. (...) Whether you like it or not.

Strip the veneer, and the world had moved only a couple of steps from the cave.

There's an insult buried in there somewhere, but I can't quite see it.

Nothing in the room was cheap, but none of it was exactly desirable either.

He studied Arch Gowrie now. The man was big and fiftyish and probably attractive to women in that way older men could be.

like we're hanging on your every brilliant deduction.

He wasn't management, but that didn't mean he wasn't skilled. Quite the opposite, in Rebus's experience.

He's a piece of the jigsaw.' 'Maybe so, John, but if he is, he's a bit of sky or cloud – I can see the picture clearly enough without him.

information was like a stone skimming across the surface of his brain, soon sinking, never to be retrieved.

But you used to know a good thing when you saw it. Trouble is, that's never what I see when I look in the mirror. What do you see? He looked at her. Sometimes I don't see anything at all.

He wondered what percentage of the world's art was actually kept in bank vaults and the like. Like unread books and unplayed music, did it matter that art went unseen?

Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.

Soms is een gedachte dichter bij de waarheid, bij de werkelijkheid, dan een handeling. Je kunt alles zeggen, je kunt alles doen, maar een gedachte kun je niet veinzen.

No one knows what women want!

Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.

Human beings, on the other hand, are symbolic creatures. Inside their heads they break down the outside world into a mass of mental symbols, then recombine those symbols to recreate that world. What they subsequently react to is often the mental construct, rather than the primary experiences themselves.

We tend to take what is familiar for what is natural

A people is what is seen before the eyes or what history reveals; a race is what is looked for and is often assumed." Here was one of the first explicit intimations that race might be an intellectual rather than a biological construct.

Otra faceta destructiva de la psicología humana es que, cuando alguien se ha hecho una idea de algo, aceptará la evidencia que refuerce su opinión y rechazará la que la contradiga.

Nuclear and Hydrogen Bomb experiments were beyond their comprehension. They could not figure out why a person is incarcerated in a mental asylum when he turns mad and why when a nation turns mad, we start calling it a Power

Why did Justice really always wear a blindfold? I knew now. It was because the cunning bitch had dollar signs for eyeballs

How about it, an Iceberg with a warm heart?

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.