Quotes About Perception

Gradually she will realize that a man wants to make improvements when he feels he is being approached as the solution to a problem rather than as the problem itself.

A glance at any human should be enough to dispel any notion that it is the work of an intelligent being.

In the struggle for life, a taste for truth is a luxury--or else a disability.

Asking for help when you can do it yourself is perceived as a sign of weakness.

The common man cannot see things objectively because his mind is clouded by anxiety about achieving his goals. Seeing clearly means not projecting our goals into the world.

The I is a thing of the moment, and yet our lives are ruled by it. We cannot rid ourselves of this non-existent thing.

A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material. Resentment sharpens his eye, hostility hones his killer instinct.

whole universe can be thought of as a delayed-choice experiment in which the existence of observers who notice what is going on is what imparts tangible reality to the origin of everything. Following

The electrons not only know whether or not both holes are open, they know whether or not we are watching them, and they adjust their behaviour accordingly.

Nothing is real unless we look at it, and it ceases to be real as soon as we stop looking.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Einstein

The one sure thing we know about the quantum world is not to trust our common sense and only to believe things we can see directly or detect unambiguously with our instruments. We don't know what goes on inside a box unless we look.

The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.

Ethics are determined by what they catch you doing. If you don't get caught, then you haven't violated any ethics.

Never trust a white person black people don't like.

What kind of name is Siler-Spence? I mean, what's wrong with these women who use hyphens? What if her name was Skowinski and she married a guy named Levondowski? Would her little liberated soul insist she go through life as F.Gwendolin Skowinski- Levondowski?

If the cops can't convict with evidence, they use the media to convict with suspicion.

Theo explained, in what he thought was perfect Spanish, that Julio needed extra help with his algebra. Evidently, she did not understand perfect Spanish because she asked Julio what Theo was talking about.

You know, I have a very bad reputation.

He stared at the cheap linoleum between his shoes and admitted to himself that once again he had fallen into the trap that often snared so many of the educated and upper-class locals when they convinced themselves that the rest of the population was stupid and ignorant. Cranwell was smarter than most lawyers in town, and infinitely more prepared.

Mine was the only white face in the crowded restaurant, but I was coming to terms with my whiteness. No one had tried to murder me yet. No one seemed to care.

You just don't understand men, Samantha. Looking is automatic and it's harmless. We all look. Come on.

A preconceived conclusion can exist and slant the findings toward that suspect.

Nor did she like society's way of presuming she was unhappy because she had not found the right guy.