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Quotes About Perception

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white's front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Everyone wears the uniform of how he sees himself or how he disguises himself.
~ Nadine Gordimer
A funny thing, the simple pretty ones disintegrate when they drink, the clever handsome ones become more beautiful, their sex comes to the surface.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Just as it is known That an image of one's face is seen Depending on a mirror But does not really exist as a face, So the conception of "I" exists Dependent on mind and body, But like the image of a face The "I" does not at all exist as its own reality.
~ Nagarjuna
All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
~ Nagarjuna
if an astronomer calculates from the sky he will ascertain the paths of the moon and the stars; but in his house the womenfolk are at variance, and he does not perceive their various misconduct.
~ Nagarjuna
All philosophies are mental fabrications.
~ Unknown
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
~ Unknown
Elle se lève. Elle se regarde dans un miroir et ne voit que des cercles : son visage en forme de cercle, sa tête en cercle, la Lune, la Terre et le Soleil en cercle. Elle est un cercle dans un cercle dans un cercle, et tout tourne. Elle se recouche et elle s'endort.
~ Unknown
Hattatin biri üç ayri tarzda yazi yazarmis: Birincisini kendisi okuyabilirmis ama baskalari okuyamazmis, ikincisini hem kendisi hem de baskalari okuyabilirmis, üçüncüsünu ne kendisi okuyabilirmis ne de baÅŸkalar?. O üçüncü hat, benim.
~ Unknown
The implication of this is that the mind's possibilities are limited by its concept of its potential.
~ Unknown
Human beings are unable to be about the serious business of living and building societies if they feel compelled to always clown or entertain others. People do not take you seriously if you don't take yourself seriously. A sense of humor brings necessary balance to an organized life, but a life of humor blinds one to life.
~ Unknown
It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects.
~ Naipaul V.S.
You can drive." When he raised an eyebrow, she said, "I've had enough contact with human males to realize you seem to have a congenital inability to function while a female is at the wheel, and I'd rather your full attention be on the case.
~ Nalini Singh
I ain't no Psy, Ms. Aleine, but even us dumb animals know when two people start exchanging thoughts, something's going on." She narrowed her eyes at his smug tone. "It was a coincidence." "Baby, when I think about my body, I don't focus on my cock.
~ Nalini Singh
Yes." She smiled, liking the word. "What I feel like right now—I'd compare it to waking from a dream and seeing the real world. It's a beautiful place, but it also has darkness. If you try to eradicate that darkness, you also destroy the light." Pain for the future of her people tightened her heart.
~ Nalini Singh
Are you sane, Mother? Laughter in his mind, painful in its familiarity. Is any immortal every truly sane?
~ Nalini Singh
Repite una mentira mil veces y la gente terminará por creérsela, aún a riesgo de perjudicarse a sí misma
~ Nalini Singh
You're prone to mood swings." Mood swings? he stopped halfway down the steps. "Women have mood swings. Not men.
~ Nalini Singh
How did you notice that?" "Because I notice you.
~ Nalini Singh
For crissakes, you're the frickin' poster boy for DarkRiver with your 'Gee, shucks, I'm harmless' act." Dorian was used to being ribbed about his looks. With his blond hair and blue eyes, he looked more like a surfer hanging out for the right wave than blooded DarkRiver sentinel. "Look who's talking, Miss Bikini Babe 2067.
~ Nalini Singh
Zaira didn't know why men and women would need different cleansing supplies, but she used the female set because she liked the pale blue shade of it.
~ Nalini Singh
You're so cute when you're deluding yourself.
~ Nalini Singh