Quotes About Perception

Hell's bells, Morty, I said. Next you'll be telling me that I didn't even meet his shade. That I deluded myself into deluding myself into deluding him into deluding me that I made the whole thing up.

Ascher eyed me. "You have a very negative attitude. Just relax and we'll get this done. Try not to look around so much. And for God's sake, smile." I smiled. "Maybe without clenching your jaw.

In the void, there is no distinction of east and west. Gwen blinked slightly at that. I know all of those words, and yet when strung together like that I have no idea what they mean.

What one deserves and what one experiences are seldom congruent.

You aren't explaining it very well." "Maybe," I said. "Or maybe you aren't learning it very well.

And here I thought global warming was due to cow farts. - Harry Dresden

When I look into someone's eyes, into their soul, their innermost being, they can see mine in return—the things I had done, the things I was willing to do, the things I was capable of doing.

your ability to comprehend your environment is very strongly defined by your belief in a number of illusions. Time. Truth. Love.

I do not perceive myself to be mad. But if I were truly mad, would I be able to tell?

Fuego! shouted someone on the walls - and for a second I was hit with a little sting of insult. Someone was shouting fuego and it wasn't me.

It is often very useful for others to think you less intelligent than you are, Benedict said, his tone amused. It works particularly well against those who aren't as intelligent as you in the first place.

No one is an unjust villain in his own mind

I'm getting dumber by the minute," I confirmed. "Ask anybody.

Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

Honestly. He sometimes felt that humans simply had to be deliberately obtuse. What was so difficult about understanding civilized and excellently enunciated speech?

Everything's mine, Francis," she replied in a merry tone. "The only question is whether or not it knows it is yet.

You can describe it to them as much as you want. You can write books about what you felt, what you experienced. You can compose poems and songs about what it was like. But until they've seen it for themselves, they can't really know what it is you're talking about. A few people will clearly see the effect it had on you, will understand that much, at least. But they won't know.

He was wrong, that doesn't make him a villian. That makes him an asshole.

I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster." "Meaning what, precisely?" "That it reflects a great deal more of yourself to your senses than you probably know.

This is why you're all kernels and I'm a major general. 'Cause you got corn silk in your ears.

One grip shy of a steering column? Grimm suggested. Ten degrees short of a compass? Aviating without goggles?

When the Almighty speaks to men, He always does it in voices they can understand

He sees the color blue," the etherealist said. "But his color blue. Not yours.