Quotes About Perception

I was amazed at how many fools I ran into until I noticed the common denominator in all those interactions: me." Why

Knowing unconsciously is best; presuming to know what you don't know is sick."34

today as then I am a solitary, because I know things and must hint at things which other people do not know, and usually do not even want to know.6

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.15

one must experience and know."33

Shame had an emotional power which it has lost today.

This new dialect of England's ruling class differed markedly from the speech ways of American colonists, to whom it seemed contrived and pretentious.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

he [Robert Lovett] knew that those whose names were always in print, who were always on the radio and television, were there precisely because they did not have power, that those who did hold or had access to power tried to keep out of sight. Halberstam, David; John McCain (2002-03-26). The Best and the Brightest (Modern Library) (Kindle Locations 448-449). Modern Library. Kindle Edition.

He did not like Europe, which he regarded as a lesser continent, populated with people significantly greedier and more materialistic than Americans. It was a place, he noted, where

One reason that Americans as a people became nostalgic about the fifties more than twenty-five years later was not so much that life was better in the fifties (though in some ways it was), but because at the time it had been portrayed so idyllically on television.

As he found beauty in the hamburger, he thought hot dogs unattractive—both aesthetically and commercially.

Being well known for being well-known did not necessarily imply intelligence.

Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person—the two are often different.

he was almost joyously what he had always been, a lot of gee whiz, it was all new and fresh even when surely he had seen much of it before, and it was as if he took delight in not having been changed externally by all that he had seen.

Dean Rusk was a man without a shadow.

Young man, Mr. Aubrey has made us so rich that we can now afford to worry about our image.

They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing.

A legitimate government does not lose face easily, but an insecure government with little in the way of indigenous roots takes its image very seriously.

Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians

It requires a certain kind of mind to see the beauty in a hamburger bun.

You could never prove innocence, not in the match with the man who only had to imply guilt.