Quotes about Perception

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

Nothing exists. All is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you…. And you are not you—you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus.