Quotes About Perception

One thing I learned on New Jack City is that when you're making a movie, the trick is to make it feel real but not be

But here's the real trip about the backlash: it wasn't that "Cop Killer" was a bad

At first, I got bused to a junior high in Culver City—a mostly white school—but for tenth grade, I decided I wanted to walk to Crenshaw High. Man, talk about culture shock. Crenshaw was where I first got introduced to the

At Crenshaw, I was already known as a player. I didn't let anyone call me by my real name—Tracy. That would start fights. Niggas would say, "Tracy? That's a bitch's name." And shit would pop

Your ego and reality sometimes fight each other. Reality is staring you in the face, but your ego doesn't want to accept it.

Before a man can become great, he must look foolish to the crowd.

Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee ' you know, a hit show or whatever.

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?

Saying of the Prophet Understanding Speak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.

People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause. 'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption.

If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love.