Quotes About Perception

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.

We saw a faraway town sleeping in a valley by a winding river; and beyond it, on a hill, a vast gray fortress, with towers and turrets, the first I had ever seen, out of a picture."Bridgeport?" said I, pointing."Camelot," said he.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

A man is accepted into church for what he believes--and turned out for what he knows.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.

His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

The trouble isn't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn't distributed right.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Classic? - a book which people praise and don't read.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.