Quotes About Perception

Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. DAVE BARRY

The truth is more important than the facts. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867–1959)

The Sun is white (with a hint of turquoise), not yellow.

Vranyo is Russian for lying even when everyone knows that's what you're doing.

Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only. RÉMY DE GOURMONT

The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.

I'm not very good at handling stupid people. I must admit.

I never felt Irish. I always felt, 'I'm English, this is where I come from, and that's that.' Because you'd be reminded of that when you went to Ireland: 'Ye're not Oirish!' the locals would say. So it was like, 'Bloody hell, shot by both sides here.' I still love that Magazine song – so relevant to me, those lyrics.

Many of the locals weren't too happy with Irish immigrants full stop, but they certainly weren't happy with a Catholic school, attached to a church, in the middle of these working-class council flats. They viewed that very much, I suppose, as people view a mosque today, as an alien agenda, and considered you an outsider for having anything to do with it.

These were early days for me in the American culture, and so I wasn't aware that when people are showing you guns, they're not threatening you, it's like they're showing you their art collection. For me, at that point, what he was presenting to me was very challenging.

It is so much easier to believe than to think; it is astounding how much more believing is done than thinking.

Horizontal vision allows someone to assimilate and weave together seemingly unconnected bits of information. It allows an investigator to see what others do not see, and to make leaps of connectivity and creativity.

I am Public Opinion. All men fear me!

Man seeks to form for himself, in whatever manner is suitable for him, a simplified and lucid image of the world, and so to overcome the world of experience by striving to replace it to some extent by this image.

helped lead to a new conception of disease as something with an identity of its own, an objective existence.

Yet of this massive flow of information no more than about 40 bits per second actually reaches consciousness. We are, in other words, conscious of only a trivial slice of all the information coming into the brain for processing.

good judgment may require the ability to listen carefully to feedback from the body.

We process more information in the lower half of our visual field, because there is normally more to see on the ground than in the sky. We group objects into units of three or four in order to perceive numbers rather than count them, a process known as subitising, that comes in handy when assessing the number of opponents in battle.

The acute attention that ravens pay to our subtle signals underscores the degree to which they can draw conclusions from our body language. They perceive our intentions even though we may not be consciously aware of them.

If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

Image is what people think we are; integrity is whar we really are.

Another mantra, which I still write in chalk on the blackboard, is "A Thousand Details Add Up to One Impression." It's actually a quote from Cary Grant.