#perception

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#angry #because #become #certain #club

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#person

Humans see what they want to see. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humans #mankind #perception #self-delusion #willful-ignorance

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#perception

It's all in the mind. ↗

— George Harrison

#mind #perception #psychology #perception

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#philosophy #scientific-process #truth #perception

We all see only that which we are trained to see. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#perception #perception

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#magic #perception #wonder #wonder

Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#women #perception

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#perception