Misguided Perception Quotes

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't.

To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.

He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.

Sometimes, when I do certain looks, I don't want the intention to be taken out of context or expressed in the wrong way.

You can blame your whole confusion on the fact that you bought illusion.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell somewhere for having been so stupid!! Movies, books, T.V., music - they're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself!

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves that the opposite was true - that the world had once been a splendid, orderly place...and that everything had been slowly, relentlessly falling apart ever since.

Even my parents sort of went along with the assumption that they were a good couple, but they probably weren't a very good couple.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.

Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.

It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.

The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.