Quotes About Perception

When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

The way you see people is the way you treat them.

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.

What you see is filtered through your beliefs. You rarely see "reality." You see your version of it.

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Seeing is not always believing.

What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

Tomorrows only exist in the minds of dreamers and losers.

Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned