Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

I’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

I only see clearly what I remember.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women’s issues to the center of our foreign policy.

What’s important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored; there may be a lot more. And it’s very high-quality oil, so very valuable.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Reality is a sliding door.