Quotes About Perception

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.

If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

He saw nearly all things as through a glass eye, darkly.

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied, one time or another.

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

When a person has a poor ear for music he will flat and sharp right along without knowing it. He keeps near the tune, but it is not the tune. When a person has a poor ear for words, the result is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending to say, but you also perceive that he doesn't say it. This is Cooper.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.