Quotes about Perception

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..

For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

Nothing exists. All is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you…. And you are not you—you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Homely truth is unpalatable.