Quotes About Perception

Luther padded toward the door and his tail wagged slightly before it stilled. "For real. We can smell things before they happen. And if you don't go after her, I smell failure in your future.

We are the Blisses,' Dearest said, patting her hand. 'Nothing we do surprises people anymore.

Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

People do not yet realize (because the mind isn't built that way) what war can be. They fear it but surely they fear it the way children fear nightmares, dimly, without definite images in their heads of how it will all work out.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead had turned in their graves - I swear, I would have heard it, that's how silent it all was.

He suspected, given her editorial experience, that she was in her fifties, but she had been coiffed, massaged, starved, and sunlamped down to forty.

If I don't like the way something unfolds, I reimagine it the way I'd rather have seen it happen.Memory doesn't dictate truth.

He was big, that Sid. He was a force, a character, and I wondered fleetingly if Sally and I would ever seem as big to our offspring as Sid had seemed to us.

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

white boys] were so sure, so unbelievably sure that the way they understood the world was the way the world was.

And people who do hideous things do not look like people who do hideous, things. There is no "face of evil." If we could somehow subtract all its horrifying connotations, the actual face of Saddam I Hussein looks rather avuncular, and has often been recorded as having a big friendly smile. Hitler's face, had it not become an icon of evil because of the atrocities his life engendered, might be considered almost comical, Ch

It may be that we are puppets—puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. —Stanley Milgram

I don't change. It's not that I change. Reality changes. Everything becomes very small, and I exist entirely inside my mind. Even my own body isn't real." Indicating

With our thoughts, we make the world. —Buddha

I don't want to be human." Dr. Mensah said, "That's not an attitude a lot of humans are going to understand. We tend to think that because a bot or a construct looks human, its ultimate goal would be to become human." "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Somewhere there had to be a happy medium between being treated as a terrifying murder machine and being infantilized.

I felt this would be the point where a human would sigh, so I sighed.

I guess you can't tell a story from the point of view of something that you don't think has a point of view.(You know, just imagine everything it says in the most sarcastic tone possible.) "There's unrealistic that takes you away from reality and unrealistic that reminds you that everybody's afraid of you.

Amena gave up on the mask and gave me her full attention. "You look angry." "That's just something my face does sometimes." This is why helmets with opaque face plates are a good idea. Amena snorted in disbelief. "Yes, when you're angry.

There was a huge difference between knowing something happened and seeing the reality of it.

Anyone who thinks machine intelligences don't have emotions needs to be in this very uncomfortable room right now.