Quotes about Perception
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events
— Albert Einstein
There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is.
— Albert Einstein
If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.
— Albert Einstein
It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.
— Albert Einstein
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
— Albert Einstein
When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.
— Albert Einstein
An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour.
— Albert Einstein
Kada sedite sat vremena kraj lepe devojke, to prodje kao minut. Sedite minut na vrelu pec i to ce trajati kao sat. To se zove relativitet.
— Albert Einstein
The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.
— Albert Einstein
Why, if it weren't for this 'internal illumination' [i.e., sentience] the world would be nothing but a pile of dirt!
— Albert Einstein
The [quantum] theory reminds me a little of the system of delusions of an exceedingly intelligent paranoiac.
— Albert Einstein
Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.
— Albert Einstein