Quotes About Perception

When your opponent is making a mistake, do nothing to interfere.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.

Power is founded upon opinion.

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Things always become obvious after the fact

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

E quando si vedono le cose future con tanta chiarezza, come già stessero succedendo, allora è segno che non devono succedere mai. Perchè son già successe, in un certo senso, nella nostra testa, e non è più consentito di provarle davvero.

You understand that photons representing all colors of the rainbow stream from the sun and strike the surface of the rose, but that, as a result of the molecular composition of pigments in the rose, it's the red photons that bounce off its petals and up to your eyes, and so you see red.

More often than not, the ideal breast is an invented breast. Decolletage, the tushy breast, is an artifact of clothing. Naked breasts don't dance cheek to cheek--they turn away from each other. Breasts vary in size and shape to an outlandish degree, but they can be whipped into an impressive conformity, and because we are human and we can't leave anything alone, we have whipped away.

A woman's breasts welcome illusion and the imaginative opportunities of clothing.

Experience, after all, is a trustworthier friend than intuition.

We may love men and we may live with men, but some of them have said stupendously inaccurate things about us, our bodies, and our psyches.

not a body of facts, it is a way of thinking.

For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

What crannies of untouched perception can you explore? What autumn was it that the moon entered your life? When was it that you picked blueberries at their quintessential moment? How long did you wait for your first true bike? Who are your angels? What are you thinking of? Not thinking of? What are you looking at? Not looking at?

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accept us.

Writing is 100% listening. You listen so deeply to the space around you that it fills you, and when you write, it pours out of you. if you can capture that reality around you, your writing needs nothing else.