Quotes about Perception

there's always somebody handy afterward to prove their foresight by your hindsight.

But I reckon Cora's right when she says the reason the Lord had to create women is because man dont know his own good when he sees it.

Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.

The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

I'm scared of him, said Piggy, and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again, it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.

Piggy was calling him a kid. Another voice told him not to be a fool; and the darkness and desperate enterprise gave the night a kind of dentist's chair reality.

What's in a book is not what the author put into it, it's what the reader gets out of it.

The enemy is always in the mind.

Truth is terrific, reality is even better, but believability is the best of all

Life is the art of being well-deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.