Quotes about Perception

Truth and authenticity are easy casualties before the power of the lens.

Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. But only he who sees takes off his shoes. The rest sit round and pluck blackberries. 1806-1861 BRITISH POET

The leader might be analyzed as the one who perceived what could be achieved and did it. p159

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.

Maybe I am senile already and people are too kind to tell me. People are not kind and would tell me. (Maybe people have told me, and I'm too senile to remember).

Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out

General Peckem even recommends that we send our men into combat in full-dress uniform so they'll make a good impression on the enemy when they're shot down.

He could not make them shut-up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.

I've always depended very heavily on the good opinion of others.

At the state university he took his studies so seriously that he was suspected by the homosexuals of being a Communist and suspected by the Communists of being a homosexual.

How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast.