Quotes About Perception

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other, but it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Yes," said Mamma, "this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.

I realized that if I had said to them, "You had that young man turned out of the carriage because he had a second-class ticket," they would have nodded and said, "Yes," and if I had gone on and said, "But you yourselves have only second-class tickets," they would not have seen that the second statement had any bearing on the first; and I cannot picture to myself the mental life of people who cannot perceive that connexion.

Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.

For all she knew, he could be a criminal, although she didn't think so. She repressed a hysterical laugh. Did she think he had an honest face? Black and blue and honest all over?

Villagers saw me as a person when I played with them, as opposed to when I talked with them.

Culture can be invisible to its natives.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

Chamberlain -- he was bigger than Shaq, just as strong as Shaq, ran just as good as Shaq, rebounded better.... Everybody thinks the new players are bigger, stronger, faster and smarter. But they are not.

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

appearance.

In a country that values the ballroom dancing talents of washed-up actors, writers were less than afterthoughts.

women are judged differently and it's not fair.

There was no deeper truth in the mundanity of violence. That truth sat on the surface and required no mining at all.

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

No matter what you say you believe, people can tell what's important by the way you act. And your behavior will affect what they believe.

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

The problem probably started when I refused to call the process of purchasing the device an "upgrade." When I buy a new roll of toilet paper, I do not refer to it as "upgrading" my toilet paper even if, for some uncanny reason, the new roll is slightly better than the previous one.

There was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex. 'She knows Chesterton.' 'She lives,' said Alex.