Quotes about Perception
Beauty is often deceitful and vain . You've grown up with beautiful women around you . You know how treacherous they can be. - Bathsheba
— Francine Rivers
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
— Frank Herbert
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
— Frank Herbert
What does a mirror look at?
— Frank Herbert
If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.
— Frank Herbert
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
— Frank Herbert
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
— Frank Herbert
What the eyes had seen could not be erased.
— Frank Herbert
He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.
— Frank Herbert
Life produces a different taste each time you take it.
— Frank Herbert
His thoughts were too vague to be described, but they comprehended mysterious elements.
— Frank Herbert
Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see.
— Frank Herbert