Quotes About Perception

all you have to do to become invisible is be a woman of a certain age, without any outstanding features: it is automatic. Not only invisible to men, but also women, who no longer treat her as competition. It is a new and surprising sensation, how people's eyes just sort of float right over her face. They look straight through her, no doubt looking past her at ads and landscapes and schedules.

We speak of grown-ups being "tall," but a child is "long.

Dizzy," I said, "it's Animals taking revenge on people." Dizzy always believes me, but this time he wasn't listening.

It's hard work talking to some people, most often males.

They really were the people from the well - they'd fallen into it long ago and had now arranged their lives at the bottom of it, thinking the well was the entire world.

Zobacz – powiedzia? do swojej kobiety, która przysiad?a na por?czy krzes?a z palcami u?o?onymi w lecznicze mudry – oto jest Nic, które zawiera niesko?czon? liczb? wymiarów wszystkiego.

When you live in a place and a time in which certain laws are in effect, then you must observe those laws, but never forgetting that they are only partial systems, never absolute. For the truth is something else, and if a person is not prepared to come to know it, then it may seem frightening and terrible, and that person may curse the day he learned of it. But I do believe that everyone can tell what kind of person he truly is. It is just that deep down, he doesn't want to find out.

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

During the first year of their married life, there were surprises for him, gentle shocks almost every day, but nothing shattering. For instance, he was amazed to discover how little education a girl can absorb, and go through a high school and two years of normal school besides. Why, Stella didn't know Thackeray from George Eliot!

The child seems quite a nice little thing." "But how long will she stay quite a nice little thing with a mother like that? Really, Mabel!" "And nice little thing or not," spoke up somebody from the other side of the hearth, "I'm sure I don't want my son meeting her at dances, and things, as he grows up, and run the risk of having him fall in love with a girl with such a mother!

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it -- but there is.

For it is only in other people's gaze that we see ourselves, isn't it?

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

[To Dr. Johnson:] If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem,Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

We are not to judge of the feelings of others by what we might feel if in their place. However dark the habitation of the mole to our eyes, yet the animal itself finds the apartment sufficiently lightsome.

There are a hundred faults in this Thing and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

But he instantly saw that it would be impossible for him to escape from the regiment. It inclosed him. And there were iron laws of tradition and law on four sides. He was in a moving box. As he perceived this fact it occurred to him that he had never wished to come to the war. He had not enlisted of his free will. He had been dragged by the merciless government. And now they were taking him out to be slaughtered.