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Perception Quotes
"We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world."
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"A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses."
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"We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception."
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"You can convert this human system into absolute receptivity, where you can perceive life in ways that you have never believed possible. If you keep all your ideas, emotions and your nonsense aside, maybe you can take a step, move one inch. One little step existentially is worth more than all the scriptures that you can read on the planet. One little step is far more important than all the philosophies that you can spout."
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"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge."
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"It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid."
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"To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."
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"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
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"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?"
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"I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose."
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"Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction."
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"What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?"
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"We were just standing there, and her eyes were so interesting. Not in the usual way of being interesting, like being extremely blue or extremely big or flanked by obscenely long lashes or anything."
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"We do not actually know other people, we only know our judgements."
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"Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly."
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"If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!"
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"You would say you don't see it: at least I flatter myself I read as much in your eye (beware, by-the-by, what you express with that organ, I am quick at interpreting its language)."
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"The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges."
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"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."
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"A gloss is a total system of perception and language."
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"Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist."
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"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see."
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"The Truth must dazzle gradually. Or every man be blind."
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"I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to."
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"What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency."
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"The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed."
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"Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age."
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"I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa."
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"Sometimes a person's first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation."
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"The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses."
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"There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several."
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"Disappointment focuses on 'what is not,' and completely misses the far greater reality of 'what now is."
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"If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me."
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"The world is best viewed through the lens of your heart."
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"I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks."
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"Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
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"Outer beauty you see with your eyes, but inner beauty you only see with your heart."
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"Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception."
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"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye."
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"Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color."
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"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."
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"These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know."
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"No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area."
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"How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception."
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"Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions."
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"The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing."
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