Quotes About Perception

What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is.

Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.

Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world.

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

I'm fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination

Well-bred English people never have imagination.

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.

Imagination and reality have little in common

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

Imagination is better than a sharp instrument. To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

I live in my own head and it all makes sense to me.

How can you read this? There's no pictures!" "Well, some people use their imagination." – Gaston & Belle

Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.

Imagination can create lies that duals truths.

Look beyond what you see.

What people dont know about you people create. Imagination is a part of being human. They fill in the unknowns with assumptions and not facts. Every man and woman is a mystery unrevealed.

Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it.