Quotes about Perception
To dash a half-truth in the world's eyes is the surest way of blinding it altogether.
— Mark Twain
However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that.
— Mark Twain
Children and fools _always_ speak the truth. The deduction is plain --adults and wise persons _never_ speak it.
— Mark Twain
Everybody lies--every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception--and purposely. Even in sermons--but that is a platitude.
— Mark Twain
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus
— Mark Twain
The other day a patient told me that he had gotten into what was a very good college. 'It's not Harvard,' he said. 'Harvard's not Harvard either,' I answered.
— Mark Vonnegut
Maybe just being open to things being connected made us see more. Now I shudder whenever I find that sort of connectedness creeping into my life.
— Mark Vonnegut
Nothing pains some people more than having to think
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I should have been reminded that disappointment produces despair and despair produces bitterness, and that the one thing certain about bitterness is its blindness. Bitterness has not the capacity to make the distinction between some and all.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
His eyes kindled and a slight flush sprang into his thin cheeks. For an instant the veil had lifted upon his keen, intense nature, but for an instant only. When I glanced again his face had resumed that red-Indian composure which had made so many regard him as a machine rather than a man.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Where do you think that I have been?" "A fixture also." "On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire." "In spirit?" "Exactly. My body has remained in this arm-chair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.
— Arthur Conan Doyle