Quotes About Perception

She wasn't actually a girl you'd turn around and look at again, and remember, I suppose; she wasn't actually pretty, I guess you'd have to say. But after I'd talked to her a few times, and had a Coke date once, when I ran into her downtown-then she was pretty.

it occurred to me that professors must get so they unconsciously act the way people think professors ought to act;

As Einstein famously said, "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

And when you're strong, you can't convince people of your love for them.

If you see the world in black and white, you're missing important grey matter.

I was always a liar. But one thing I failed to realize about being a liar is that you know when you are deceiving someone else, but when you deceive yourself you believe you are telling the truth.

Do you think I'm weird because I'm wired, or wired because I'm wierd?

It's like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination are even more important because it's your mind that allows the words to come to life.

I could see everything she said as if it were a wall painting inside the cave of my own skull.

You want to know a secret?" I asked. "Sure," she said halfheartedly. "I love to sniff the insides of books," I said in a whisper. "Because each book has its own special perfume.

The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh's empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

Poetry is a kind of lying, necessarily. To profit the poet or beauty. But also in that truth may be told only so. Those who, admirably, refuse to falsify (as those who will not risk pretensions) are excluded from saying even so much. Degas said he didn't paint what he saw, but what would enable them to see the thing he had.

A man in Black and White" Some years ago, a child was asked whether he liked radio or television best. The boy said radio, because the pictures were better.

We look up at the stars and they are not there. We see the memory of when they were, once upon a time. And that too is more than enough.

Using a daring and audacious method, the citizens of Konstanz in Germany managed to prevent allied forces from dropping a single bomb on their city during the Second World War... they left all of their lights on at night! As the city is very close to the border with Switzerland - who were neutral in the war - the allied forces assumed the city was Swiss, and didn't target it.

your dog has a sense of smell around one hundred thousand times better than yours!

If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.

think the great American public would be pleased.

tried to straighten it. "I must look a mess," she said and smiled.

A world at war is crazy enough for anything to be believable.

If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.

The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.