Quotes about Perception
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.
— Aldous Huxley
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
— Aldous Huxley
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
— Aldous Huxley
The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
— Aldous Huxley
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen.
— Aldous Huxley
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
— Aldous Huxley
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
— Aldous Huxley
The vaster the audience, the more vulnerable the people watching the media.
— Ravi Zacharias
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
— Lewis Carroll
Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.
— Bill Gates
There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
— Deepak Chopra
Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way.
— Gloria Steinem