Distorted View Quotes

Patriotism ruins history.

I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure.

A mad man sees what he sees.

I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.

A thing is never seen as it really is.

... reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations.

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.

She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.

I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in a woman that she doesn't actually have, who puts her in a class apart with every one else in second place, and who stays attached to her even while he's abusing her.

People in pain don’t always see things as clearly as they should.

Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

Perception and reality are two different things.

I try to spend a lot of time with people outside my direct reports. The view from the top is totally distorted. If you only spend time with your directs, you have no perspective on what's really going on.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

I am forced to view the Middle East as if I am looking in a mirror that has been shattered.

Perversnes makes one squint ey'd.

Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.

Perception is not always reality.