Quotes About Perception

My dear, you will be woefully disappointed if in my story you expect any thing like a novel. I once heard a general say, that nothing was less like a review than a battle; and I can tell you that nothing is more unlike a novel than real life. Of all lives, mine has been the least romantic.

The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina's view of Diego.)

Mom, you know what? I just realized you have a knack for making people disappear. [Lella's son catches on!]

Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella's perceptive view of herself]

It's beautiful, of course, to be able to see the day-side of life, truly it is, but those who tell the real truth are those who can see the shadowy side too.

Det er klart disse unge hadde handlet i god tro, en måtte vel tilgi dem. Skjønt de fleste syntes nok at ungdommer nå til dags var litt vel foretaksomme.

Die Ganzheit ist eine Wunschvorstellung der Nervenzerrüttung.

Behold,' said the Voice, 'earthly beauty. It is nothing but seeming, for to the uninstructed eye the world appears fruitful and sweet, yet in it is nothing but a pile of skulls, showing where others were lost as they went before.

Knowing a man for a fool, why should I trouble myself with his maggots?

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

BesideCother art to be learned -- not to see what is not.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe ' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

The true basis of the imagination is reality

The education of the senses has, as its aim, the refinement of the differential perception of stimuli by means of repeated exercises.

Here it is enough to say that one should proceed from few stimuli strongly contrasting, to many stimuli in gradual differentiation always more fine and imperceptible.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.

I don't like the eyes. You get so tired, don't you? Of being looked at. Maybe some women feel flattered, but I've always felt the moment a man's eyes settle on me, he's halfway to feeling he can do anything.

Guess when you no one's listening, you just stop talking.

Carly went back and forth between several of the paintings, trying to decide which one was least likely to frighten small children. "You know, your work is very Ã¢â'¬Â¦ unique, Hazel. I can honestly say I've never seen anything quite like it.

Sometimes, it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Because what she disliked in men was not their eroticism, but their assumption that women had none. Which left women with nothing to be but housemaids.

the image of the Good Life long ago stamped on her soul was quite different from this, and she suffered in contrast.