Quotes About Perception

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Everyone is right in his/her point of view but not necessarily on RIGHT

The map of the universe is hidden in your mind, keep exploring, you will find the ways even if there is no way to make anything happen"

The Voice of silence is louder than any Noise.

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

Every time a couple moves they begin, if their attention is still drawn to one another, to see each other differently, for personalities are not a single immutable color, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us.

But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.

It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .

somos más vulnerables a las malas ideas y los malos líderes.

Hubo un tiempo, no muy remoto aún, en el que los villanos eran gente buena. Se llamaban «villanos» porque vivían en una villa. Pero, como otras palabras transformadas por el azar del tiempo, el carácter humilde e ignorante de los villanos se convirtió en sinónimo de indecencia, grosería y maldad. Tal parece que ni los propios villanos comprenden por qué la historia los ha convertido en malos.

The perception that the world around you is changing in ways you cannot predict or control feels deeply threatening to a sizable subset of any population.

Él ha entendido que en estos tiempos es necesario para los gobernantes parecer democráticos aunque en la práctica no lo sean. Pero guardar las apariencias democráticas es algo que a Hugo le interesa... y lo hace muy bien.

when people conclude that their economic and social progress is blocked, and they are stuck in a lower rung than the one they expected to occupy in society. Status dissonance is amplified by the sense that rather than coming closer to your rightful place in society, you're falling further and further below your natural spot in the pecking order.

en estos tiempos es necesario para los gobernantes parecer democráticos aunque en la práctica no lo sean.

a veces pareciera que no gobierna sino que está en una campaña electoral permanente.

Blurring the lines between politics and entertainment isn't something these leaders do on a lark. They do it because it allows them to get away with behaviors that their more traditional rivals couldn't have dreamed of getting away with in the old world where the political and entertainment spheres were clearly separated.

Both power and influence can change the behavior of others or, more specifically, make others do something or stop them from doing it. But influence seeks to change the perception of the situation, not the situation itself.

Si todos los productos son iguales, el más barato es el que hay que comprar. A menos que produzca sensaciones que estimulen al cliente a pagar más.

Hay décadas en las que no pasa nada y hay semanas en las que suceden décadas» —dijo Fidel enfatizando

MADAME PERNELLE. My dear, appearances are oft deceiving, And seeing shouldn't always be believing.