Quotes About Perception

A young man sat down beside him on the divan and, without any kind of preliminary, said, 'Is it a queer book?' 'No,' said Laurie. 'Oh,' said the young man, on a note of utter deflation. He got up and went away.

A starving man won't notice a dirty plate.

There is truth and truth,' said the priest of Delos. 'It is true after its kind.

You may think I have been rather quick to decide I am in love. But he is a clear kind of person, about whom one has to think clearly.

Lo conoces? ?dijo Reg. ?No. Me he equivocado. ?Yo diría que es un marica total.

Sintió ese tipo de falsa resignación que puede engañarnos cuando contemplamos los contratiempos en un momento en el que no los experimentamos.

Siempre me ha parecido que una de las preguntas más absurdas del mundo es: «¿Estás salvado?». Para contestar uno ha de sonar o bien esquivo y derrotista o demasiado complaciente. ?Creo que yo dije que solo puede esperarse lo mejor, pero a ella le pareció evasivo.

Comprendió cómo es posible idealizar a las personas por conveniencia propia mientras se pisotean sus debilidades humanas como si fueran tierra.

Algunas veces piensas una cosa pero tardas algo más en sentirla.

La moral es la munición de la guerra. ?Moral no es más que otra palabra que se usa para todo. ¿Qué quiere decir? ¿Valentía o sanguinariedad, o no hacer preguntas indiscretas, o quiere decir lo que cada día nos dicen que quiere decir?

Her estimate of human nature, and more particularly of her own sex, went up as the coffee went down.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

It's the reason we say "pork" and "beef" instead of "pig" and "cow." Dissection and surgical instruction, like meat-eating, require a carefully maintained set of illusions and denial.

Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.

Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.

I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of a human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret the sight in a more comforting manner. - Here we are at the rubber mask factory. Look at the nice men and woman working on the masks.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

Liquor for men and tears for women," he would say. "What would we do without them?

I found myself liking her at once. She was as plain as an old shoe. Queer how one can hear of people for years, dislike them on principle, and then meet them and fall for them. I fell for Maud Wainwright that day with a crash—braid, bedroom slippers, and all.

thought, for all her lightness, she was studying me. Not subtly. She was never a subtle woman; but with the semi-direct frankness with which children survey strange people.

It is characteristic of the average mind often to question what it hears, but to believe wholeheartedly what it reads.