Quotes About Perception

There are no big stories left, just paths through the clutter and the inevitable soft landing.

Imagine, if you will, what life would be like if you were not understood.

Before marriage keep your eyes wide open, after marriage keep them half closed.

To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.

A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.

Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.

Tko nije nau?io gledati nebo u potoku, ne zna što su ribe na drve?u.

?uvajte se ugroženih ljudi i ljudi koji misle da su ugroženi. Oni ose?aju potrebu da se štite i brane, i zbog toga ?esto i neo?ekivano i podmuklo napadaju

Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taking part in its upsurge, others that they are witnesses of its extinction. In fact, it always both flames and smolders and is extinguished, according to the place and the angle of view.

the broadening of cultural perspectives can in turn broaden the range not only of what can be sensed but what can be perceived.

Your taste in books says more about you than any other single object in your house. It reflects your interest, your intelligence, your sophistication, your humour…

For men, evil is an act one can undo. But for women, evil is in their very being.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other.

Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.

One way to eliminate self negating thoughts and behavior is by gaining more understanding through realizing that you cannot force others to see that what you feel is real.

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

Although the cricket's song has no words, still, it sounds like sorrow.

More fragrant because of the one who saw and picked them, these flowers, precious, transient--

How do we know that we exist? No one knows. Not so, you say. I think, therefore I exist. But how do you know that you think? No one knows that either. You just do.

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement.' Not so. No one was fooled.

The purpose of meditation is not so much changing what we see as changing the way we see it.

Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

If you think Sigourney Weaver is sexy then you are a homosexual.