Quotes About Perception

Art does many things, but for me where art is at its best is in providing a window into the way another mind works.

Why do we as humans create art? Why is Richter's work regarded as art while a book of Dulux colour samples is not?

But believing something to be true has nothing to do with whether it is true.

Our images of God matter. Just as how we conceptualize God affects what we think the Christian life is about, so do our images of God.

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

How he learned to distinguish fear from the impostor, being afraid. Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

The best pilots usually have the most unflattering nicknames. The pilots I know say they don't generally have much confidence in anyone with a call sign like Maverick or Viper. If you meet one named Outhouse or Dumpster Diver, however, it's a safe bet he's good to go.

It's been said that only the very rich understand the difference between themselves and the poor, and only the truly brilliant understand the difference between themselves and the relatively dumb.

It's been said that only the very rich understand the difference between themselves and the poor, and only the truly brilliant understand the difference between themselves and the relatively dumb. Well, only men who have gone through

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

I would rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.

She'd always been blunt, to the point that people sometimes mistook her for cold. In truth, she was one of the warmest people he had ever met.

back when they had been teenagers who thought love was a noun, a thing you could possess.

You wanted to believe that the sniper had a reason. That he wasn't just a broken guy who'd been abused by his uncle or whatever. Wanting to believe that there's a logic behind insanity.

So why can't we see people?" "Because they're there, and we're here. They're creating the sound, we're living in the echo. There are drivers in the cars and clerks in the stores and ladies walking dogs. Living people, doing their thing. Totally unaware that at the same moment, us dead folks are walking through an echo of their world." Brody tried to picture it, an overlap of the real and the invisible.

People don't want the truth, not really. They want safe lives and nice electronics and full fridges." He

People don't want the truth, not really. They want safe lives and nice electronics and full fridges.

everyone had their own reality, and yours was just one version.

It was a lot to convey with a look, but sometimes words murdered ideas. He

He tried to grasp the thought, but it was like throwing his arms around smoke.

know Lee and Lisa. But you did.