Quotes About Perception

And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness.

He said the threshold of insult is in direct relation to intelligence and security.

A man looking at reality brings his own limitations to the world.

and what is truth?

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to. But when you grow up you take your place and you're your own size and shape. Things go out of you to others and come in from other people. It's worse, but it's much better too.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

Things are neither so good nor so bad as they seem to you now

What's celebrate? Eddie asked. That's when you can't get no dame, said Mack. I thought it was a kind of a party, said Jones. A silence fell on the room.

Captain Loft believed that all women fall in love with a uniform and he did not see how it could be otherwise.

Güzellik neden ille de eskiye ait olsun ki?

The pictures were designed to soothe without arousing interest – engravings of cows in ponds, deer in streams, dogs in lakes. Wet animals seem to serve some human need.

Its inhabitant are, as the man once said, whores, pimps, gamblers and sons of bitches, by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men, and he would have meant the same thing. Quoted by Richard Wagamese in Ragged Company

It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow.

No one could call him a liar. And this was mainly because the lie was in his head, and any truth coming from his mouth carried the color of the lie.

I like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks

There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty

How's that for the grapes?

An' it all just amounts to what you tell yourself.

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist-or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it.

This is just a nigger talkin', an' a busted-back nigger. So it don't mean nothing, see? You couldn't remember it anyways. I seen it over an' over-a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing is, they're talkin', or they're settin' still not talkin'. It don't make no difference, no difference.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

Words pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.

Ellen, only last night, asked, 'Daddy, when will we be rich?' But I did not say to her what I know:'We will be rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly.' And that is true. In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.