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Perception Quotes

"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts.' They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."
Thomas Hobbes
"The voice of intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear."
Karl A. Menninger
"We look up at the same stars and see such different things."
George R.R. Martin
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
George Bernard Shaw
"The truth is that belief creates the actual fact."
William James
"How is it possible to believe in something that can't be proven? It's like trying to convince someone that music sounds good."
Woody Allen
"Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. A failure is not an error"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman"
Etel Adnan
"The heart frames the universe, rendering it intelligible"
Etel Adnan
"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are"
Niccolo Machiavelli
"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper"
Khalil Gibran
"Of all the things which are no longer what they seem"
Herman Melville
"Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick. A shadow on the wall"
George R.R. Martin
"If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation."
Haruki Murakami
"The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason "
Benjamin Franklin
"Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear"
Haruki Murakami
"Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear"
Haruki Murakami
"What we’re seeing here is our own reflection"
Ram Dass
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