Quotes About Perception

The sentries might not be the most alert, but they might have marked a skulking, five-shoe tall grasshopper.

I know what I have said, but not what you have heard.

Each man sees what his own experience has taught him.

While July read, Tom listened with his eyes closed. This was a trick of his whenever he wanted to concentrate on what he heard. By shutting down one information flow he thought to heighten his attention on the other. However, he was never known to put his fingers in his ears when he wanted to see something clearly.

If you look in the dictionary under 'white trash' there's a picture of my family." from BREAKFAST WITH NERUDA, p 37

Proust is famous for his rhapsodies on hawthorns but his book has only three of these, whereas there are thirteen scenes in brothels, one especially detailed episode running to more than forty pages. Few critics mention the brothels but they are more fun than the hawthorns.

94 per cent of us think we do above-average work.

In sex women are largely guided by their sensible bodies but men are driven crazy by their feverish minds. Men love to think and talk about sex; women enjoy it while it lasts, if they can, and have little interest in pre-match build-up or post-match analysis.

Günümüzde art?k kimse kabahatini kabullenmek istemiyor, herkes kurban görülmek istiyor ve bunu s?kl?kla, en olmayacak ?artlarda dahi ba?ar?yor.

Proust laat ook zien dat er geen betere manier om anderen te misleiden bestaat dan eerst jezelf te misleiden: 'Men liegt het hele leven door, met name tegen geliefden, en bovenal tegen de vreemdeling wiens minachting ons de meeste pijn zou doen: zichzelf.

?nsan ba?kalar?n?n kusurlar?n? yabayla saman savururcas?na kolay aç??a ç?kar?r ama kendininkileri kurnaz bir kumarbaz?n zar?n? tutu?undaki ustal?kla saklar." - Buda

Aptal, bilge oldu?unu zanneder ama bilge, aptal oldu?unu bilir." - Shakespeare

We gaan er altijd van uit dat lezen gemakkelijk is omdat we de techniek die we zo lang geleden hebben geleerd, vergeten zijn en het nu voortdurend zonder nadenken doen. Als een boek dus moeilijk lijkt, moet dat eerder de schuld van het boek zijn dan van de lezer.

No sound came out, yet she was fully awake. Not a syllable, not a phrase.

How difficult it is to see even what's in front of one's eyes. All we possess is the present, and the present endlessly dissolves into the past." Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

That was the last and greatest demand that Heisenberg made on his friendship with you. To be understood when he couldn't understand himself. And that was the last and greatest act of friendship for Heisenberg that you performed in return. To leave him misunderstood." Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

We know nothing worth knowing about what goes on outside our frontiers. Worse-we know very little more about what goes on within them. Beyond the light of one's own personal experience-darkness. What are people thinking? What are they feeling? How do they behave? Messages of reassurance or exhortation come through. One reads between the lines. Friends pool their knowledge. But in general we live like animals, in ignorance of the world around us.

Margrethe slips into history even as I turn back to Bohr. And yet how much more difficult still it is to catch the slightest glimpse of what's behind one's eyes. Here I am at the centre of the universe, and yet all I can see are two smiles that don't belong to me.

I can't help feeling sceptical about the Bible's claim that God made man in his own image...He could have achieved that by creating a couple of mirrors; or a closed-circuit television.

I shatter the objective universe around you—and all you can say is that there's an error in the formulation!" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen".

It didn't matter if you made a fool of yourself in front of strangers – he saw that now. It probably didn't matter much if you did it in front of your friends. The shameful thing was doing it in front of strangers, and being seen by your friends in the process.

Adversity does more than build character. It changes the way we see the world.

Mrs. Norris

Wilde's definition of a cynic (someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing), and