Quotes about Perception

I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you will find little credit to be gained out of this case." "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he answered, laughing.

What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

you know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick and if I show too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all. -Sherlock Holmes

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true." Another translation says:"There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so.

Every religion, every philosophy, every individual outlook on life tells a story of reality.

I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.

His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.

If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.