Perception Quotes

"To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another" "Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear" "No matter how absurd it may appear" "Let men see what they want to see." "To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual." "You should never trust a storyteller; only trust the story" "I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that dogs think humans are nuts." "The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of having imagination is to have a sense of life." "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change" "It's better to be looked over than overlooked." "I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information." "You can lead people to truth, but you can't make them understand it." "History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction." "You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you." "The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation."