Quotes About Perception

It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else!

The whole thing about elections in Liberia - it's not about the way you take care of people, it's not about the heart, it's about education, according to the perception of some people.

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.

She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.

Ignorant is not the one who does not know much but the one who does not make senses.

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.

You think you're a role model, and they (protégés)turn around and tell you you're a negative role model.

Boy handing over his report card: Of course I seem stupid to my teachers . . . they're all college graduates.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

To me, it's never about the trick. I don't care about how something works. I care about how people feel when they watch it. You know, that - that connection - that emotional connection is true magic.

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.