Quotes About Perception

If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.

The authors of literary works may not have intended all the subtleties, complexities, undertones, and overtones that are attributed to them by critics and by students writing doctoral theses. That's what God says about geologists, I told him...

mother like son' is a saying so true, the world will judge largely of mother by you.

So oft in theologic wars, / The disputants, I ween, / Rail on in utter ignorance / Of what each other mean, / And prate about an Elephant / Not one of them has seen.

There are some great mysteries here, which each of us is better placed to understand than any sceptical scientist or religious zealot, simply because our Universe is not the same as theirs.

The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. / What matter where, if I be still the same...

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

A form of self-delusion.

I'd always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.

I'm not really worried about people's perception of what I do, or people's analysis of why I make the decisions I make. I wake up every day with a new interest and a desire for an education.

The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.

Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.

The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both cases there is a set of clues.

The young donÂ't know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.