Quotes about Perception
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what
— Lewis Carroll
Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.) 'You're nothing but a pack of cards!
— Lewis Carroll
But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.
— Lewis Carroll
If it had grown up, 'she said to herself, 'it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.' And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, 'if one only know the right way to change them -
— Lewis Carroll
She thought of herself, "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!
— Lewis Carroll
generally happens when one eats cake; but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
— Lewis Carroll
So here's a question for you. How old did you say you were?' Alice made a short calculation, and said 'Seven years and six months.' 'Wrong!' Humpty Dumpty exclaimed triumphantly. 'You never said a word like it!' 'I though you meant How old ARE you?' Alice explained. 'If I'd meant that, I'd have said it,' said Humpty Dumpty. Alice didn't want
— Lewis Carroll
I ca'n't remember things before they happen.' 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.
— Lewis Carroll
All this time the Guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera-glass. At last he said, "You're travelling the wrong way," and shut up the window and went away.
— Lewis Carroll
How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: *was* I the same when I got up this morning?
— Lewis Carroll
It's all her fancy: she never executes nobody, you know.
— Lewis Carroll
But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything
— Lewis Carroll