Quotes About Perception

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]

We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

I'm really the addition of other peoples' imagination, quite honestly. It's what they see me as, and I'm very happy to comply. I find things are more varied that way.

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.

This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.

Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.