Quotes about Perception
If the poet's description be criticized as not true to fact, one may urge perhaps that the object ought to be as described—an answer like that of Sophocles, who said that he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.
— Aristotle
whenever a reasonable explanation comes to sight as to why a thing appears to be but is not true, this makes for greater trust in the truth.
— Aristotle
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
— Arthur C. Clarke
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle