Quotes About Perception

Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can't do with an ugly one? Nothing. It's just a matter of preference.

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant.

Yes," he said, "intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike.

Could a creature who had to look upon ordinary people literally as food and shelter ever understand how strongly those people valued life?

Sometimes people say I look grim or angry. Better to have them think that than know the truth. Better to have them think anything than know just how easy it is to hurt me.

Is a pea cut in half one wounded thing or two?

The thing is, we hear gunfire so much that we don't hear it.

It's wrong to assume that I must be a sex you're familiar with," it said, "but as it happens, I'm male.

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once we did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though we had stolen thoughts from their minds.

I don't like most Utopia stories because I don't believe them for a moment. It seems inevitable that my Utopia would be someone else's hell.

I wanted to disappear. Instead, I grew to be six feet tall. Boys in particular seemed to assume that I had done this growing deliberately and that I should be ridiculed for it as often as possible.

Earthseed Cast on new ground Must first perceive That it knows nothing.

It seems inevitable that people who can't read are going to lean more toward judging candidates on the way they look and sound than on what they claim they stand for. Even people who can read and are educated are apt to pay more attention to good looks and seductive lies than they should.

You're right. People do blame you for the things they do to you.

No one is who we think they are," I said. "That's what we get for not being telepathic.

I might not have believed this if a Human had said it. Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once we did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though we had stolen thoughts from their minds.

Your teachers Are all around you. All that you perceive, All that you experience, All that is given to you or taken from you, All that you love or hate, need or fear Will teach you— If you will learn. God is your first and your last teacher. God is your harshest teacher: subtle, demanding. Learn or die.

Akin rested his chin on Iriarte's shoulder and savored the strange pale scents—all pale now.

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

A lot of people seem to believe in a big-daddy-God or a big-cop-God or a big-king-God. They believe in a kind of super-person. A few believe God is another word for nature. And nature turns out to mean just about anything they happen not to understand or feel in control of.

Why do you always expect the worst of everyone?' When it comes to strangers with guns,' I told her, 'I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.

You're supposed to be dirty now. If you're clean, you make a target of yourself. People think you're showing off, trying to be better than they are. Among the younger kids, being clean is a great way to start a fight.

She seemed to be able to turn the accent on and off. She tended to turn it on for comforting people, and for threatening to kill them.

Anyanwu! Does that white skin cover your eyes too?