Quotes about Perception

We tend to focus on the object and call it reality. We don't notice how our mind intervenes in our perception.

What we lack is not an ideology or a doctrine that will save the world. What we lack is awareness of what we are, of what our true situation really is.

As the blade of a sword cannot cut itself, so a thought cannot see itself.

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.

If I get dressed up, and my boyfriend says, 'You look gorgeous,' I kinda feel funny. I don't know if I'm particularly comfortable with being attractive.

I can give you the King's English and then I can take it to the street, but do both or do one and don't do one knowing only the street. That's going to hold you back because what comes out is going to impress people, and it will impress them negatively.

I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

The nature of rumor is known to all.

Women are supposed to be very calm generally, but women feel just as men feel.

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.