Quotes about Perception

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.

You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.

There's some very good medias. And I have to say, Fox has treated me fairly. And I don't mean good, but they've treated me fairly. I don't want to be treated good. I just want to be treated fairly.