Quotes About Perception

Si los muertos ven claramente, solo los vivos nos cegamos constante can trivalidades.

Theory and practice may not coincide. A Sikh girl may find her life restricted more than her brother's even though Sikh teaching is one of gender equality.

Men have always danced bhangra, and women the female Punjabi equivalent, gidda, but not in the same place. Now, at sophisticated wedding receptions, there may be mixed discos with elderly bemused relatives watching and thinking how things have changed since their young days. Not, of course for the better!

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.

Most American citizens do not think of themselves as living in an empire but instead in a great nation that mostly does good things. The occasional failing, like the toppling of a government in a violent coup or the murder of civilians in an air strike, is "not who we are.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

When the mind is free of any thought or judgment, it is still and acts like a mirror. Then and only then can we know things as they are.

In a society that has become so oriented toward language as a way of representing truth, it is very possible to lose touch with your ability to feel and with it your ability to "remember" the shots themselves.

If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.

Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all be right from mirror after mirror, no vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had before the world was made. What if I look upon a man as though on my beloved, and my blood be cold the while and my heart unmoved? Why should he think me cruel or that he is betrayed? I'd have him love the thing that was before the world was made.

I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked

How far away the stars seem, and how far Is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart!