Quotes About Perception

All zoology assumes from our side a methodical Einfühlung into animal behavior, with the participation of the animal in our perceptive life and the participation of our perceptive life in animality.

Remember that you cannot work on yourself unless you begin to wonder why you say what you say and do what you do and behave as you behave and feel what you feel and think what you think. To take yourself for granted, to imagine you are always right, to ascribe to yourself all that you do ascribe to yourself—all that form of sheer imagination will prevent you from seeing what esotericism means, what the Gospels mean, and what you mean.

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

En el silencio mandan los ruidos.

And – yes – it is a truth universally acknowledged that if an unexceptional man declares himself to a woman of his fancy, she will immediately start to look on him in a more favourable light and find his unexceptional qualities less of a handicap.

People are very quick to ridicule others for showing fear. But we rarely know the secret springboards behind human action. The man who shows great fear today may be tomorrow's hero. Who are we to judge?" Audie Murphy, most decorated soldier of World War II, Congressional Medal of Honor winner.

It's about this girl who was married three times and was still a virgin. Know how she managed that? First she married a midget, see, and he was too small. Next she married a preacher, and he was too religious. Then she married a small-town cop, and he couldn't find it.

No existo porque pienso ni pienso porque existo. Pensar es cierto, existir es un mito. Yo no existo, vivir –lo que se dice vivir– sólo los que no piensan. Los que se ponen a pensar no viven." --Dos Crímenes Barrocos, Max Aub, Crímenes Ejemplares--

What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body. But the possibility of a naked body is something special.

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

Stop believing what you want to believe. It's unbecoming

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

She was one of the people who say: "I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like."

Anywhere but in England it would be impossible for two solitary men, howsoever much reduced by influenza, to spend five or six days in the same hostel and not exchange a single word. This is one of the charms of England.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

But the loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly, eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

Putin is smart enough not to believe his own propaganda. Trump isn't.

Words," said the host, at length, "is worse'n bullets. You never know what they'll hit.

Word's is worse'n bullets. You never know what they'll hit.