Quotes About Perception

other in a key inaudible, usually, to the human ear. But probably you could hear it. Sometimes. If you quieted the pulse of your own blood. A rhythmic keening at the edge of sound. Wynn thought that if wolves sang, and coyotes, and elk and birds, and wind, and we, too, it was probably

I think its a terrible invention. Nobody knows how to read a map anymore. You chase down a blue line but you have no idea where you are in the world. Like a rat in a maze. How do I ever know where I am in relation to Pikes Peak, or the South Platte? Or God?

I like to play chess. I moved to a small town, and nobody played chess there, but one guy challenged me to checkers. I always thought it was kind of a simple game, but I accepted. And he beat me nine or ten games in a row. That's sort of like living in a small town. It's a simpler game, but it's played to a higher level.

I looked at the terraced hills and noticed how the people had changed the earth, taming it into dizzying staircases of rice paddies; but the Chinese looked at the people and saw how they have been shaped by the land.

Rasha had been employed by two different Chinese shops, and she said that after this experience she would never work for an Egyptian. She described the Chinese as direct and honest, and she appreciated their distance from local gossip networks. "They keep their secrets," she said.

In Fuling I was always extremely conscious of my appearance, because every day I was confronted by the ways in which I looked different from the locals, but now in these desert towns I saw people with noses and hair and eyes like mine. For the first time I realized the full importance of race, not just in the way it divided people, but also in the sense of feeling a link to those who looked like you.

News Corp. used the same footage to sell patriotism in America and in China, and in both places the people bought it.

Women, every powerful man is becoming weak until he dies. Men, every beautiful woman is becoming less beautiful until she dies. Yet there is a deeper beauty and a deeper power and a deeper love.

I'm not so sure we're all that good at telling whether something is dead or alive. Maybe we confuse alive with lots of noise, emotion, and zeal.

No matter what data is used, we live in a universe where six days from one standpoint is several billion years from another standpoint. And indeed, all of time is an instant from the standpoint of light, and "God is light.

Maybe it's not just a metaphor, and maybe mystery...paradox...wonder...aren't LESS real than this world, but MORE real than this world.

We welcome into our homes the machines that vacuum the thoughts out of our heads and pump in someone else's. John Berger in Ways of Seeing said that television advertisers succeeded by persuading viewers to envy themselves as they would be if they bought the product. These programmes do something similar, by persuading the viewer to envy himself as he would be if his life were that little bit more exciting and melodramatic than it actually is. They can make things seem normal that are not.

The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

If you became blind," I said, "if you were used to finding your way around a house and then, suddenly, one day had an accident--was attacked or something--and became blind, only then would you actually notice the furniture. It would always have been there, but you would never have been aware of it, you would just have gone around it. Only when something becomes hard to cope with do you see it. That's how you become aware of time--when it becomes hard to cope with.

V oby?ejném ?ase, v tom na hodinách, pochopí ?lov?k ur?ité v?ci. Když nechá ?as b?žet, pochopí jiné.

Professional psychics use astrology all the time. Why? I don't know. I would think that a true psychic would be the last person who would have any use for astrology, even if it were true.

In reality, the world have played too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Interpretation is the fuel that drives understanding. The making of meaning is what

Perspective. Everything was about perspective. One man's darkness was another man's daylight. How come so many people did not realize that?

That's the one good thing about the human brain, it constantly revises the past, cutting bits here, adding bits there, presenting it in an even more palatable way - the way we would have liked things to have been, rather than the way they really are.

You know, that's one of the ten thousand things I love about you. You're always looking for the good in people.' 'And you're always looking for the bad?' 'That's what twenty years of being a copper does for you.

Tu problema es que no sabes diferenciar entre ruido y buena música.

Oscar Wilde es mi héroe en lo referente al tiempo. Él siempre era impuntual. Una vez, cuando llegó excepcionalmente tarde a una cena, la anfitriona señaló enfadada el reloj de la pared y dijo: «Señor Wilde, ¿es consciente de la hora que es?». Y él contestó: «Querida señora, le ruego que me diga cómo puede saber esa dichosa maquinita qué está haciendo el gran sol dorado».

Grace glanced around; just a