Quotes About Perception

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.

What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter.

Others see their possibility in the reality of you. Your message is your life lived.

Astronomers always work in the past; because light takes time to move from one place to another, they see things as they were, not as they are.

Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. "Do you believe there is a devil?" asked one. "No," said the other promptly. "It's like Santa Claus: it's your father."

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

Notice how quickly your feelings change when you know there is a more immediate and real danger than the possibility of falling. How did you do that?

We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.

We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.

It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.

I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.

My view of "attraction," then, involves a high degree of overlap of their experience with a real person and the wished-for image in their heads.

Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. —NDT

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't. People are much more complicated than that. It's true of everybody.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

One of the nice things about time, Crowley always said, was that it was steadily taking him further away from the fourteenth century.

No one in France has that accent. No one has a French accent like that, except on TV, when English actors show that they are French by speaking English in a French accent that no French person ever actually uses. But we have come to accept that. We want Hercule Poirot because it sounds intelligent and travelled and cultured and everything that we're not, British or Asian.