perception Quotes

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.