Quotes About Perception

It's all exaggerated. My exaggerations are exaggerated.

Bob and Rebekah Mercer, who had set themselves up as almost professional fools.

People are far too quick to judge others, especially when they don't have the full facts. --from the book For Reasons Unknown

the most dangerous lie is the lie that resembles the truth". Michael Youssef

But evidence is all around you." "The world is all around me. Some parts I understand, some I don't. Some the scientists do, some they don't. It exists. That only proves it exists." "I don't understand how you can look at the world and say there's no God." "And I don't know how you can look at the world and pretend you know there's a God and what he wants. So we're even.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself." —Adolf Hitler

this is the problem with photographs. After a while, you can't remember if you're recalling the actual memory or the memory of the photograph. Or perhaps the photograph is the only reason you remember that moment. (p.85)

But what I do love about this road is how the gaudy becomes grand, how tastelessness is a way of everyday life

You spend your life so worried about what others think, when in reality, people mostly don't think. On the few occasions when they do, true, it is often something bad, but one has to at least admire the fact that they're thinking at all.

Know this: even if you're like us and still doddering around above ground, someone out there from your past is probably pretty sure that you're dead by now. (p.125 )

You spend your life so worried about what others think, when in reality, people mostly don't think.

I like Alice Cooper too, even after I learned that she is a he.

we instinctively zero in on dangers that are unusual or immediate, while paying much less attention to hazards that unfold more slowly or in a more familiar way.

La lectura, y sobre todo la lectura novelesca, es un tipo de sueño; un sueño que no realizamos dormidos sino en un estado particular que no corresponde enteramente a estar despierto.

Toute expérience poétique engage au moins trois termes : un sujet, un monde, un langage».

Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces.

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right…. We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.