Quotes About Perception

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

I am clever enough to know that I am clever.

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.

There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.

I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold. - Coloured Money

When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and the vagaries of his left eye (which was for ever trying to dash up and down the vertical surface of the door), he was able by dint of concentration to observe, within three inches of his keyholed eye, an eye which was not his, being not only of a different colour to his own iron marble, but being, which is more convincing, on the other side of the door.

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergère and looks at the audience.

I thought Beauty and the Beast were two people, not one.

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

Svaka nepravda je jednaka, a ?ovjeku se ?ini da je najve?a koja je njemu u?injena. A ako mu se ?ini, onda i jeste tako, jer ne može se misliti tu?om glavom.

Kakve su da su, žene su mudrije i bolje od muškaraca. To pred njima ne treba re?i, ali su muškarci glupi, sujetni, uobraženi, ne vrijede mnogo, me?u nama re?eno. I ?udo je kako nas žene trpe.

A story is not always a lie," said Tristan. "Some stories are truer than truth." Truer than truth? That sounded like something liars made up to tell people who found them out.

But—what if other women decide they want to do what he did? Just stop being women and become men instead? There will be an epidemic. Everyone will want to be a man." I was very quiet. She had just revealed a lot about how she felt as a Mormon woman.

You can't teach a blind man to see but you can teach him how to feel just what you feel

We see we hear we taste we touch We see the world we wish to live, We hear the sound we wish to listen to, We taste the bittersweet that life has given us, We touch the hearts we wish to love, These are the senses we have been given, we can choose how we want to use them.

Toda a estória se quer fingir verdade. Mas a palavra é um fumo, leve demais para se prender na vigente realidade. Toda a verdade aspira a ser estória. Os factos sonham ser palavra, perfumes fugindo do mundo.

De que vale ter voz se só quando não falo é que me entendem? De que vale acordar se o que vivo é menos do que o que sonhei?

O silêncio não é a ausência da fala, é o dizer-se tudo sem nenhuma palavra.

Morreram milhares de moçambicanos,nunca vos vimos cá.Agora,desaparecem cinco estrangeiros e já é o fim do mundo?

O senhor não tem cor, Doutor. As pessoas não têm cores. Ou têm cores que não têm nome.

Back there our sun doesn't speak. -Where's "there," Miss Marta? -Back there, in Europe. Here, it's different. Here, the sun moans, whispers, shouts. -Surely-I commented delicately-the sun is always the same. - You're wrong. There, the sun is a stone. Here it's a fruit.

era preciso deixar de existir para notarem a minha existência.

Existe dois tipos de pretos: os calçados e os pretos.