Quotes About Perception

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others.

You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.

A settant'anni persino un Oreiller de la Belle Aurore (ricetta suprema di Brillat -Savarin) può sapere di merda, Biscuter

A fictional character living in a nonfiction world.

Well, evil to some is always good to others." —Jane Austen, Emma

The gut speaks—and rarely lies—of what is and what is to come.

Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.

That woman has halitosis of the soul.

Husbands are always angry, that's their nature. And the nature of us women is not to pay a blind bit of notice.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

We do not know space. We do not see it, we do not hear it, we do not feel it. We are standing in the middle of it, we ourselves are part of it, but we know nothing about it.

I want to find happiness in the tiniest of things - a minute moss plant, 2 cm across, on a rock - and I want to try to do what I've been wanting to do for so long, that is, to copy these infinitesimally small things as precisely as possible and to be aware of their size.

Fair face does not equate to hallowed heart.

Learning 'yes' and 'no' gave them at least twenty minutes' worth of entertainment because mood-shading them could turn 'yes' into 'no, you bastard' and 'no' into 'maybe,' 'I'm only fake-saying no,' and variations of 'hells, no' that felt completely different from saying 'hells no' in any other language.

Maybe having a sex was like clothing, something to be donned over the deeper truth of being human.

A work of art is essentially the internal made external, resulting from a creative process operating under the impulse of feeling, and embodying the combined product of the poet's perceptions, thoughts, and feelings. The primary source and subject matter of a poem, therefore, are the attributes and actions of the poet's own mind; or of if aspects of the external world, then these only as they are converted from fact to poetry by the feelings and operations of the poet's mind.

Anyone who tells you her life is like a book has either been reading some bad books or is not being straight with you or herself about her life.

He is a nice-looking33 young man, but she one of the least attractive of girls, coarse-featured, with an ill-tempered mouth and a certain German vulgarity, which will be terrible at 35.

We remember the best fiction as though experienced, and we finish the greatest works with access to the inner-lives of the mind in a way life refuses us.

My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character." "Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women.

One man's ugliness can blind another to the world's magic.