Quotes About Perception

The things you do and say always tell you more about yourself than whoever you're speaking or responding to

We were meant to see more than our physical eyes can see,

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

Consciousness ("here" and "now") is not "false and misleading" because of language; consciousness is language, and nothing else, because it is false and misleading.

No one in his right mind will try to grow grapes by the luminosity of the word "day.

[Upon first seeing a daguerreotype:] From today painting is dead.

Fear is a funny thing. If that's true, why aren't I laughing?

Is that a knife in his hand or an ice cream cone? You'll never know until you taste it.

The Lord, like every woman I have ever known, was cold and distant.

Believe me, Athelstan, you can wrap a dog's turd in a cloth of gold but it remains a dog's turd.

Always remember a useful dictum: every man born of woman is three persons; what he appears to be, what he claims to be and,' he beamed round, 'what he really is.

One of the great advantages about being a villain is that you can easily recognise other villains and on rare occasions, recognise a truly good man.

Philip, whom men nicknamed 'Beautiful'

every man born of woman is three persons; what he appears to be, what he claims to be and,' he beamed round, 'what he really is.

Our tendency to attribute our behavior to our context or to blame others for it is directly in contrast to how we tend to judge others' actions. When it comes to other people, we are far more likely to attribute the bad meal to their inability to cook rather than to other causes. This is called the fundamental attribution error.

Distinction bias is the tendency to view two options as more dissimilar when evaluating them simultaneously than when evaluating them separately.

And you can trust your own experiences more than your beliefs.

You can also trust your own experiences more than your projections.

Perception begins with what is experienced, rather than beginning with what is expected; the model is to "see and understand" rather than "understand and see.

The one thing that does not change is that, at any and every time, it appears that there have been great changes

Emotions change how we see the world and how we interpret the actions of others. We do not seek to challenge why we are feeling a particular emotion; instead, we seek to confirm it.

Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions, much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.

Believing-a-lie mistakes occur because certain people just don't make mistakes when they lie. These are not just psychopaths but also natural liars, people who are using the Stanislavski technique, and those who by other means succeed in coming to believe their own lies. The lie catcher must remember that the absence of a sign of deceit is not evidence of truth.