Quotes About Perception

Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And it is something that the individual alone can feel and experience. Each of us cherishes it highly, yet it is private

From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant.

Why should your conscience be any more reliable than your rotting teeth or your quite special defect of eyesight?

understanding the facts is more important than knowing the facts. But

All proof begins with something which cannot be proved, but can only be perceived or accepted, and is called an axiom or first principle.

The two first facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous. . . . [A]ll

Popular science tries to define realities, and then finds that the definition can be extended to any number of unrealities.

If truth is relative, to what is it relative?

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, for your character is what you are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different? There was a point when I would have liked to, but apparently that's just because I'm a bitch.

You are -" she stopped fanning long enough to push the glasses up her nose - "Sprout Bradford?" I thought it was a little pretentious to say "You are Sprout Bradford?" instead of "Are you Sprout Bradford?" so I said, "I are Sprout Bradford!" in my best half-hick, half-retard voice.

If you let the alembic cool, metaphor becomes superstition.

When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.

Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Maar sy kyk nie meer nuus nie. Sy lees ook nie meer koerant nie. Reg en verkeerd, waarheid en leuen is strome wat deurmekaar geloop het in een rivier, jy kry dit nie meer uitmekaar geskep nie.

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.

It didn't seem like a year. It had gone by like a lifetime when you look back and think of a time so far away that you can't clearly remember what happened yet a time that has gone so quickly it seems only a minute ago it started.

He couldn't see her face of course but he knew she was smiling.