Quote by Megan Chance

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could mak

Summary

This quote highlights the potential fallibility of sight as a sense. It suggests that our eyes can be easily tricked or deceived, as demonstrated by the example of making a coin disappear. Despite the coin simply being hidden up the speaker's sleeve, our eyes would perceive it as completely gone. It serves as a reminder that appearances can sometimes be misleading, urging us to be cautious and consider alternative explanations beyond what our eyes perceive at face value.

Topics

Truth Belief Sight Magic Seeing Believing Deceiving

By Megan Chance

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, yo

Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.

Taraji P. Henson

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

Elizabeth Edwards

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an e

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

The justification for those actions was that we were living

The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a totalitarian enemy was to intimidate him. The trouble with this theory was that while we live in a world of plot and counterplot, we also live in a world of cause and effect. Whatever the cause for the decision to legitimize and regularize deceit abroad, the inevitable effect was the practice of deceit at home.

Norman Cousins, Pathology of Pow

Deception/lying

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of othe

We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time y

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introdu

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

Don't go downhill just because it's easy. The view is only v

Don't go downhill just because it's easy. The view is only visible from the top.

Motivational Inspirational

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

Wisdom Life Conformity

I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be

I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is of

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

Joseph Ratzinger