Quotes about Perception

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.

You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.

There's some very good medias. And I have to say, Fox has treated me fairly. And I don't mean good, but they've treated me fairly. I don't want to be treated good. I just want to be treated fairly.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.

When you trust your television What you get is what you got Cause when they own the information, oh They can bend it all they want.

When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.