Quotes About Perception

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved; it is a reality to be experienced.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!

I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?

Time is making fools of us again.

Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!

Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

We may feel angry because they don't guess who we are or what we want from them, because "if they really loved us," of course, they would be able to guess.

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.

Bwenawa brought my attention to two wooden planks raised about four feet above the ground. On the ledges were lagoon fish sliced open and lying in the sun, the carcasses just visible through an enveloping blizzard of flies. "You see, " said Bwenawa. "The water dries in the sun, leaving the salt. It's kang-kang [tasty]. We call it salt fish." "Ah," I said. "In my country we call it rotten fish.

It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that he was a general in the Civil War, which occurred in 1492, when Americans dumped tea into the Gulf of Tonkin, sparking the First World War, which ended with the invasion of Grenada and the development of the cotton press.

Ideas about our own self-worth are no more real than thoughts about an imaginary chair.

And so we create a story—a "drama about me"—that may gradually wander far away from the here and now and far away from the way things actually are. Once the script we have concocted for ourselves has been set in the mind, we may unwittingly rely on it as a reference point for all present and future judgments—without ever checking back with the here and now. Without knowing it, our thoughts become words carved in stone rather than words written on water.

once you see the difference that paying full attention can make to the small things in life, you start to get an inkling of the cost of inattention.