Lana Turner Quotes

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know.

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Facts do not speak.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.

The matter does not appear to me now as it has appears to have appeared to me then.

When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It's all real because it's all 'real.'

Our facts aren't fact; they are opinions dressed up like facts. Our opinions aren't opinions; they are emotions that feel like opinions. Our information isn't information; it's just hastily assembled symbols.

The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.

When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are.

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.

To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of others is being adjusted, they, who are not made of mere brute matter, are also changing; we think we have managed to see them more clearly, but they shift; and when we believe we have them fully in focus, it is merely our older images of them that we have clarified, but which are themselves already out of date.

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see is also dependent on your emotional state. Because of this, a motif can be seen in many different ways, and this is what makes art interesting.

You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.

Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel of indisputable information is a dot in space; interpretations grow out of the desire to make this point a line, to give it direction. The directions in which it can be sent, the uses to which it can be put by a culturally, professionally, and geographically diverse society are almost without limit. The possibilities make good scientists chary.