Quotes About Perception

Until you get to know them in person, anyone you correspond with online remains a stranger.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." ? John Wooden Quote

The mind is everything. What you think you become." ? Buddha

Time is a dream - or a nightmare - from which there is never any waking. We who travel in Time are dreamers who occasionally share a common experience.

The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

You can walk through the grocery store and, while the brightly colored packaging and empty promises are still mesmerizing, you can see the products for what they are.

The selling of food matters as much as the food itself… if not more.

If you ask Muslim women why they cover up, ninety-nine percent of them will say it's to avoid arousing men. Fuck that, where's your self-accountability?

You know," said Jehangir, breaking the silence, "it's only Muslims who use the term 'innovation' to mean something bad.

We had not liked each other much at first. He mistook my shyness for arrogance and I failed to see that his arrogance masked his shyness.

And what right do you have to judge me? He was nothing to you but a drink." "No," I said. "I loved him." She looked away from me. A moment later she said, "I have never understood homosexuality. I can't picture what you men do with each other." "I could tell you but it would completely miss the point.

It doesn't have to mean anything to you to mean something to me.

Her work was indeed elliptical, she left out everything that was essential, including logic and meaning. Her words neither described nor observed things. They were just words scattered across the page. This was braininess of the highest order, the verbal equivalent of the white canvas passed off as a painting; so abstract that to have expected some sense from it would have insulted the artist.

Paris looked back at me without expression. The silence went on for a second too long. "You're gay," he said. Still looking into his eyes, I said, "Yes, I am." "I didn't think so at first." "What gave me away?" "You didn't react at all when I mentioned my boyfriend. You didn't even blink. Straight men always give themselves away.

What I remembered most clearly from my first sex with another man was the unexpected tenderness. It disturbed me - disoriented me. I guess. I had expected homosexuality to be dark and furtive, but it wasn't.

She's a good poet but a very neurotic woman." "Don't the two go together?

while people and circumstances certainly matter, what's even more important is what we think about those people and circumstances.

Yet when our thinking quietens down, the upset tends to disappear. If we look closely, we can see the idea that another person can make us feel a certain way is as illusory as the 'white triangle' we hallucinate when we look at the image above. And that is why the physicist David Bohm said, 'Thought creates our world and then says, "I didn't do it.

To define a thing is to see it clearly, to see it as distinct from other things and at the same time to see its exact relationship with other things: for a thing is its relations and activities.

to see a thing completely is to set it in relation with the universe.

A novel is a mirror walking down a road

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology.

The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.