"It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it."

Perception, Judgment, Society, Action

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"It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it."

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"Even if everybody is looking at the same light bulb, the unique composition of an individual will dictate how they interpret and see things. Some people will only see things with their left eye (mind/moon), while others will use only their right (heart/sun). Some people are completely void of light and repel it immediately. For instance, a beetle will chase after an opening of light, while a cockroach will scatter at a crack of it. How are we different than the insects? Nobody is purely good or purely evil. Most of us are in-between. There are moths that explore the day and butterflies that play at night. Polarity is an integral part of nature - human or not human."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Perception, Humanity, Nature, Duality

"Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

Perception, Imagination, Observation, Stillness

"For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Perception, Truth, Perspective, Happiness, Wisdom

"Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter."

Archibald Marwizi, Zimbabwean Author

Perception, Appearance, Presentation, Substance, Opportunity

"There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?"

Frank Herbert, American Writer

Perception, Sight, Blindness, World

"Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Perception, Imagination, Reality, Surprise, Life

"I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Perception, World, Wonder, Mind

"Just because they annoy you doesn't mean they're wrong!"

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Perception, Truth, Judgment, Opinion

"Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Perception, Emotion, Belief, Influence

"But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters."

Veronica Roth, American Author

Perception, Truth, Lie, Reality, Confusion

Explore more quotes by William Faulkner

"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."

Language, Word, Love, Truth, Meaning

"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."

Conscience, Mind, Assimilation, Peace

"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good."

Creation, Writing, Creativity, Action, Improvement

"Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves."

Gender, Women, Evil, Trust, Men

"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."

Attitude, Love, Work, Day, Man

"Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness."

Existence, Time, Light, Order, Loss

"What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe."

Existence, Life, End, Universe, Legacy

"If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies."

Writing, Mother, Ladies, Old, Will

"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."

Writing, Learning, Discipline, Creativity

"Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why should not their religion drive them to crucifixion of themselves and one another? he thinks."

Conflict, Violence, Religion, Pain, Escape