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Quotes about Perception

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.
— Samuel Johnson
I hope people'll find out pretty quickly that the guy they saw for 10 years was my sense of humor the whole time.
— Stephen Colbert
The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.
— Kathleen Norris
Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.
— Laurence Sterne
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
— Mark Twain
Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.
— Mark Twain
Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.
— Moby
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..
— Mark Twain
For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.
— Mark Twain
The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.
— Mark Twain
The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.
— Mark Twain