"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's relativity."

Perception, Time, Relativity, Experience

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"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's relativity."

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"It's both a blessing and a curse to see a woman's beauty!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Perception, Beauty, Blessing, Woman

"We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build up the world with it. Babies do it, we all do it; we filter out most of what our senses report."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Perception, Sense, Chaos, Familiarity

"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."

Barack Obama, American President

Perception, Wealth

"The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."

David Levithan, American Author

Perception, Difference, Judgment, Thought

"When you are seeing a person, you are not really seeing him. You are seeing his reflection through the mirror of your mind."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Perception, Mind, Reflection, Self-awareness

"Being rich or famous does not equate an effective life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Perception, Rich, Famous, Effective, Life

"I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267)."

Annie Dillard, American Author

Perception, Nature, Observation, Wonder, Life

"When you read between the lines, you must have bloody good eyesight because I can't see a bloody thing!"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Perception, Reading, Understanding, Vision

"Senses disabled by fear."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Perception, Fear, Truth, Wisdom, Emotion

"We see the world as we are."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Perception, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational, Happiness

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"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

Life

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

Intelligence

"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."

Science

"The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."

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"I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research."

Science

"Nothing happens until something moves."

Progress

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"It's both a blessing and a curse to see a woman's beauty!"

"We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build up the world with it. Babies do it, we all do it; we filter out most of what our senses report."

"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."

"The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."

"When you are seeing a person, you are not really seeing him. You are seeing his reflection through the mirror of your mind."

"Being rich or famous does not equate an effective life."

"I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267)."

"When you read between the lines, you must have bloody good eyesight because I can't see a bloody thing!"

"Senses disabled by fear."

"We see the world as we are."

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"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."

"The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."

"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings."

"Do you really believe that the moon isn't there when nobody looks?"

"I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research."

"Nothing happens until something moves."