1,601 Quotes About Perception

A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be.

An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before.

Our contradictions are never so to ourselves.

We prayed the moon would unstopper long enough to suck us through to the other side so we could see how dull the stars were at their backsides.

As humans, reality for us is largely based on other people's perceptions. If there's 20 bodies in your crawl space but you haven't been caught yet, you tell yourself you're still a birthday clown, and that's how you keep doing it.

We don't see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a ship's captain. Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree...

What you see is not what wee se. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

It bothered me that the bag bothered me more than head did, but what are you going to do? A person doesn't conciously choose what he focuses on. Those things choose you, and, once they do, nothing, it seems, can shake them.

One who has lived through the days of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and the Japanese war lords feels something that a younger generation does not concerning the aberrations that are possible in this world.