perception Quotes

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

If I see an actor in a role that is really terrifying, no matter how many times I meet him socially, I'm still frightened of him. I think he's going to hit me.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.