Quotes About Perception

It's a human tendency to confuse simple with easy!

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

ones who had never met us but confidently

That one doesn't paint a landscape, a seascape, a figure; one paints the effect of a time of day on a landscape, a seascape, or a figure.

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.

His flexible mind extended to take in his opponent's position and then snapped back like an elastic, with the illusion that it had covered ground.

Your opinion of yourself is the only thing that's ugly about you," I fired back. "Now, if you want to keep looking at yourself that way, you go right ahead. But do me a favor and keep them ridiculous comments to yourself.

A STUDY shows that if an American schizophrenic hears voices, they tell him to commit violence. And if a schizophrenic in India hears voices, they tell him to clean the house.

And what if it were only a story?" said Mrs. May quickly, "so long as it was a good story? Keep your sense of wonder, child, and don't be so literal. Anything we haven't experienced for ourselves sounds like a story. All we can ever do is sift the evidence.

I don't think human beans are all that bad-" "They're bad and they're good," said Pod; "they're honest and they're artful- it's just as it takes them at the moment".

It's so awful and sad," she once admitted to Tom Goodenough, "to belong to a race that no sane person believes in.

In this life," he went on, "you got to see what is, as you might say, and then face up to what you wish there wasn't.

His internal God-inspired vision for himself was realized through the acceptance of his previously unacceptable physical vision.

she had the educated instincts of a European, not an Asiatic,

Oh, man," said Jack. "Everyone was nice to us when we looked rich. Now it feels like the whole world's against us.

It looks so peaceful," said Annie. "You can never be sure," said Jack. "Remember, Pompeii looked peaceful before the volcano went off.

Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.

Maybe Cubism started this way. Memory re-arranging a face.

What is honour? In Athens it is one thing, in Sparta another; and among the Medes it is something else again. But go where you will, there is no land where the dead return across the river.

You cannot step twice into the same river, said Herakleitos. People in the past were not just like us; to pretend so is an evasion and a betrayal, turning our back on them so as to be easy among familiar things.

For I had felt too much and reasoned too little, hearing what I was ready to hear, not what had been said. There