Quotes About Perception

She's not seen it a tenth this bright on any previous night.

taut. She looked out of the windows, left and right—and her tail began to swish.

This world is mysterious. Sometimes we perceive the mystery, and retreat in doubt, in fear. Sometimes we go with it.

His sense of smell alone brought him more information

Intuition is the highest form of knowledge.

the nature of the world when you dared to see it clearly: a place of mystery in which extraordinary coincidences were more common than they seemed.

can't see anything inside, just vague shapes, which probably means the glass is heavily tinted and polarized, so it looks clear from inside but not from out here

telepathy," had been part of that fund of knowledge called "instinct.

THE WORLD HAS GONE MAD. YOU MIGHT have argued against that contention twenty years ago, but if you argue it in our time, you only prove that you, too, live in delusion.

with high cognitive ability, to one degree or another, were often fools and should embrace their foolishness rather than deny it.

That's a fox. His tail alone proves it.

But no lie, regardless of how well intended, could deceive in telepathic communication

full of classes he has never taken, grades he never earned

Some believed the most ridiculous things without a shred of evidence, but wouldn't believe a truth even when it stuck its fingers in their eyes. So to speak.

should know. Though

Watches and clocks measure our perception of time, not time itself.

emotionally, intellectually, psychologically, chronologically, and now even geographically

In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.

Well I'm not in Adams and Steichen's league. I like to think my work is art, but few galleries represent photos anymore, not like there were when those guys were hot. The mystique is gone, you know. Every Joe and Jane with a smartphone thinks they're a genius photographer.

she reacts to the impact not as if it might damage the vessel, but as if it is a thrill she'd happily pay for if this were a carnival ride.

She realized then that madness and sanity were two worlds separated from each other by no more than a single step.

Libby believes that she hears her mother's voice submerged in the louder shriek

Most likely, she's witnessing not an escape, but a penetration.

All that was considered evil on this side of the glass might be judged good on the other side. Truth here might be lies there, and the future might precede the past.