Quotes About Perception

Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

The ears are the last feature to age.

A mirror has no heart but plenty of ideas.

It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not.

we would all like to be taken for what we would like to be

Dreams extended a real world danger into an imaginary one.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

It is fascinating to see how politicians can become convinced of a material fact when it is actually only supposition.

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to

People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

You track with the heart, not the eyes. The eyes are easily deceived; easiest thing in the world to show something that isn't true and make people believe it.

The best vision is insight.