Quotes About Perception

Magic," Core responded, "is anything observable and perhaps repeatable that cannot be explained in terms of any existing knowledge on the part of the observer

Magic is doing something the other guy can't do. We haven't learned how to do it yet, so it's magic. When we learn how and understand it, it's science.

Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.

People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good works. And I suppose there's no harm in that. But if I'd gone to the trouble to pull all this together ... and people never paid any attention to it, never bothered to try to find out how the world worked, then I think I'd get annoyed.

I had never realized that so much communication was non-verbal. That language was a kind of refinement of information passed by other means. We discovered that, with the most limited vocabulary, a half dozen words, you could still cover a lot of ground. And eventually, Belle came back.

But the reality is that sometimes a good lie may be what we really need. Provided we can make it sound like truth.

Scramblers could, of course, be manufactured to resemble comm links or compacts or virtually any other kind of metal object. But my philosophy is that if someone has a weapon pointed at him, he should know about it.

Truly evil persons do not recognize their own malevolence. They perceive themselves as generous, good-hearted, friendly sorts, who sometimes have to resort to unpleasant tactics for the general betterment of society. Even the historical monsters seem to have had no second thoughts about the damage they were causing. It was that way with Hitler and Oliver Moresby, just as it was with the Greer Avenue Strangler.

It's been said that we're all three people: the one we see ourselves as being, the one others see us as being, and the one we really are.

to herself, "I'm living in crazy land." All election season, the media bombarded Lisa's roommate with messages that Trump supporters were "monsters, literal genocidal maniacs who weren't human anymore" and they deserved cruelty.

All at once, I went from successful social justice activist, to unemployed racist.

If you believe the media, all Trump voters are mouth-breathers who can barely sign their name.

If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG.

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60. -Jack Nicholson

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

If you think you're attractive, you're always attractive.

You want the truth? You can't handle the truth

Miss Selby was thirty-four last February. But she looks thirty-five. I'd give her thirty-five easy.

Our consciousness can only give us an experience of our thinking.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

If one person tells you you're a horse , they are crazy. If three people tell you you're a horse, There's conspiracy afoot. If ten people tell you you're a horse,it's time to buy a saddle