Quotes About Perception

politicians had long known, people preferred short, catchy answers to complex ones, even if the short answers were oversimplified to the point of ridiculousness. Phrases

one to see a trucker

He hadn't really known them, and like most people, he was just solipsistic enough to not truly believe they existed when he wasn't there. We're all background characters in someone else's movie. Maybe

It was like that old riddle about replacing the handle of an axe, and later the head—when you were done, was it a new axe or the old one?

All he could do was try to focus, to put his attention on the woman right in front of him and the angle of her shoulder that meant she was about to shift her bag. To the man about to speak to his friend. To the little girl who looked a lot like Kate—no, push that away, no time now to think about Kate—reaching up for her mother's hand. When

Everything had a sweetness these days, a golden glow like he was watching his own life in some sun-faded movie print.

Truth is a slippery concept." "No, the great thing about the truth is that it's true.

she was so small, you couldn't help but imagine what she looked like naked." -- Brilliance, 2013

she was so small, you couldn't help but imagine what she looked like naked.

The world worked because people agreed to believe it worked.

knew what you meant." "Think about it, Will. That was the end. We've seen the whole span, beginning to end. Life to nothingness. We know every step of it. Every fading footfall." She paused. "And still don't really know anything, do we?

It's like the parable about a man who dreamed he was a butterfly. When he woke, he couldn't be sure that he wasn't a butterfly dreaming he was a man. And

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

the trick to chess is to be paying more attention to what the other side is doing.

the problem with looking for your glasses is that you don't have your glasses on while you're looking . . .

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. It was just that she had the honesty of someone with nothing to prove.

Data. That's what matters. That's what tells us something. But people want to see pictures. Supernova in vivid color. Even though scientifically it's useless.

If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.

I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.

People think I have so much faith in myself, but I have none. I have no faith in myself, or in what I can do, and yet people think I can do anything I want. That's how I seem, but it's an illusion. It's an act, nothing more.

To see yourself on camera is not a natural thing, a thing no normal person is comfortable with; for it shows us as others see us, not as who we believe we really are.

It is enough to know that not to know is enough. It is enough not to know.

It was like a new kind of vision, seeing with eyes as keen as scalpel blades, that cut away desires and emotions and wishful thinking and left only what was fact.

Anything that might occur in 'story-time' could ultimately not be stranger than the utter oddity of the 'real-world.