Quotes About Perception

People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling with new purple hairs. And the buds are bulging like tumorous acne, and I can tell that something wet, and soft, and cold, and misshapen is about to be born. And I am turning into a vampire.

De kunst is fraaier dan de werkelijkheid, maar beide leggen het af tegen de herinnering.

En cuanto formamos una opinión o un juicio, nos estancamos; nos esclavizamos.

El doctor Ihaleakalá siempre dice: «Un problema no es un problema, a menos que digamos que lo es, y el problema no es el problema. El problema es cómo reaccionamos al problema».

From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.

How short lived knowledge is. When I was 20 I knew it all: now at 70 I can't understand a thing

Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?

Each person is worth the value put on them by the affection of others, and that is where popular wisdom has found that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality, or exist in reality without existing in opinion, the conclusion is that of the two parallel lives, only opinion is necessary – not reality, which is only a secondary consideration.

Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

One thing i hate about being smart is that you notice everything even when someone is trying to fool you.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

The more I see of men, the better I like dogs.

Like most people who live on the edge, she spoke with two accents, neither authentic.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture.

History would be far different if we did not tend to hear God most clearly when we think He is telling us exactly what it is we want to hear

Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.

Since early 2017, surveys show a marked decline in respect for the United States. In Germany, belief that the American president can be counted on to do the right thing shrank from 86 percent under his predecessor to 11 percent under Trump. In France, the fall was from 84 percent to 14; in Japan, 74 to 24; in South Korea, 84 to 17.

Mussolini was not a keen judge of individuals, but he was sure he knew what the mass of people wanted: a show. He compared the mob to women who are helpless (he fantasized) in the presence of strong men. He posed for pictures in the government-controlled media while driving a sports car, standing sans shirt in a wheat field, riding his white stallion, FruFru, and posing in his military uniform, complete with shiny boots and a chest bedecked with medals.

This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible.

Falsehood flies," observed Jonathan Swift, "and the truth comes limping after it." McCarthy's

Consider all the demands that are placed on government, then factor in the gargantuan changes that have taken place in the past seven decades: the end of colonialism, the lifting of the Iron Curtain, the narrowing of the North–South divide, the revolution in technology, and the increased mobility of people. By any objective standard, democracy—though everywhere tested—has not failed and is not failing. Why, then, do we feel so often that it has and is?