Quotes About Optical Illusions

#1. Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

Carl Sagan

#2. I was fascinated with optical illusions.

Temple Grandin

#3. Limitations are nothing more than optical illusions, created by our own self-doubt.

Robert M. Hensel

#4. The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.

Daniel Gilbert

#5. He said Manhattan had other problems - whatever that meant. And sometimes when I looked across the water, I could swear I was seeing things. Sadie laughed about it, but once I thought I saw a flying horse. Probably just the mansion's magic barriers causing optical illusions, but still, it was weird.

Rick Riordan

#6. There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

Marcel Proust

#7. Your eyes have no power to see. They only create optical illusions. Only the mind can see it when it is ready to see it.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion.

Henry Van De Velde

#9. If a woman-in-a-man's body goes after a man, is she attracted to the same or the opposite sex? If a man-in-a -woman's body wants a woman, is he a lesbian or straight? Prejudice is only cowardice in the face of complexity.

Jay Lemke

#10. Cherish the good, learn from the bad

Brittany Murphy

#11. Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

Otto Von Bismarck

#12. One can get past just about anything, given enough time, even when one shouldn't.

Andrew Levkoff

#13. The benefits kids get from watching "Sesame Street" can be as powerful as the ones children get from preschool.

Julie Roginsky

#14. It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like we are.

Chick Corea

#15. I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course
the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.

Douglas Adams

#16. The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted to significant changes in the financial mechanisms and climate.

Benjamin Graham

#17. The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

Donna J. Haraway

#18. And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.

Robert Burns

#19. The more we construct lives that prioritize safety, the bigger the prison we construct around ourselves.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself ... that a tiger is an optical illusion
well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

Lord Byron