Quotes About Perception

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?

There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.

A lot of people don't understand how a lot of money is being made. There's a combination of fear related to that, envy, distrust that gets filtered into that.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.

What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.

...heaven may be only the mind's fear of the wonders it imagines.

Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

You know what 'FEAR' stands for? It stands for 'False Evidence Appearing Real.' It's the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

To fear what you do not understand is to mistake ignorance for safety.

ThereÂ's a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.

No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don't know what I don't see—what I don't fear!

Respect and fear are two different things.