Quotes about Perception
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
— Albert Einstein
When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.
— Albert Einstein
An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour.
— Albert Einstein
Kada sedite sat vremena kraj lepe devojke, to prodje kao minut. Sedite minut na vrelu pec i to ce trajati kao sat. To se zove relativitet.
— Albert Einstein
The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.
— Albert Einstein
Why, if it weren't for this 'internal illumination' [i.e., sentience] the world would be nothing but a pile of dirt!
— Albert Einstein
The [quantum] theory reminds me a little of the system of delusions of an exceedingly intelligent paranoiac.
— Albert Einstein
Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.
— Albert Einstein
The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
— Aldous Huxley
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
— Aldous Huxley
To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
— Aldous Huxley
The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions
— Aldous Huxley