Quotes About Perception

MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.

This distinction between believing-a-lie and disbelieving-the-truth is important because it forces attention to the twin dangers for the lie catcher. There is no way to avoid completely both mistakes; the choice only is between which one to risk more. The lie catcher must evaluate when it is preferable to risk being misled, and when it would be better to risk making a false accusation.

People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people's actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or another.

can you tell when a politician is lying? When he moves his lips!

Misinterpreting is not the only route by which someone may believe his or her false account is true.

when they were, in fact, lying. They were taken in by the false expressions and ignored the expressions that leaked the true feelings. When people lie, their most evident, easy-to-see expressions, which people pay most attention to, are often the false ones. The subtle signs

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

St. Thomas Aquinas said it neatly and powerfully centuries ago: "Things known are in the knower according to the mode of the knower.

The greatest way for people to experience a comedy is to go in not knowing anything about it. But because of marketing, it's impossible. Marketing meaning that in order to get people to come you can't just go, 'Hey, there's a great movie - we're not going to show you anything from it but trust us!'

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

I would read accounts of so-called battles I had been in, and they had no relation whatever to what had happened. So I began to perceive that anything written was fiction to various degrees. The whole subject-- the difference between actuality and representation--was an interesting one. And that's what brought me to literature in the first place.

When ... asked what I am writing, I have answered, "A book about social class in America," ... It is if I had said, "I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

Mrs Harris was sixtyish, small and wiry, with cheeks like frosted apples, and naughty little eyes.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Para ver cierro los ojos

I shut my eyes in order to see.

How do you see this tree? Is it green? ...Don't be afraid to paint it as green as possible.

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: " How beautiful that is!

Shut your eyes in order to see.

I find everything poetic, and it's in the corners of my heart which are sometimes mysterious that I catch a glimpse of poetry… I feel a sensation that leads me into a poetic state…

Neuznávám žádnou jinou pravdu, kromÄ› pravdy umÄ›lecké lži.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.