Perception Quotes

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees ...

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

The perception of the horizon is an earthbound event; all horizons disappear in space, and we are le...

Everything is interconnected. My readings of classical authors, who never speaks of sunsets, have ma...

I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w...

It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the p...

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a fun...

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty argumen...

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on real...

Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts o...

An eminent philosopher among my friends, who can dignify even your ugly furniture by lifting it into...

Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there m...

It's all in the mind.

nothing changes from one generation to another except the things seen and the things seen make that ...

Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God.

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to ea...

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.

It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like tha...

Even if things were the same, people's perception of them might have been very different back then. ...

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stri...

The poets have taught us how full of wonders is the night; and the night of blindness has its wonder...

The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a ...

For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarc...

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. It is only necessary to behold the least fac...

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

The great fact all the while however had been the incalculability; since he had supposed himself, fr...

It had belonged to that idea of the exasperated consciousness of his victim to become a real test fo...

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of...

I can see clouds a thousand miles away, hear ancient music in the pines.

I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an...

Life is 10 percent what you make itand 90 percent how you take it.

At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, ...

If the ancients had been able to see it as I see it now, Mr. Palomar thinks, they would have thought...

Accidents happen. That's what everyone says. But in a quantum universe there are no such things as a...

The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all...

I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know...

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the poin...

There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppres...

You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your per...

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...

Our contradictions are never so to ourselves.

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself, because the self ...

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take t...

There is but one reality, that is true -- but the two of you experience it in slightly different way...

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes hav...

You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a pla...

Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see wh...

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of ...

While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had ...

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public per...

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around...

The author found participants in a study able to come up with more reasons to support their position...

Experiment participants asked to pick which politician looked more confident in a photograph picked ...

What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what aw...

Songs are as sad as the listener.

There are official searchers, inquisitors. I have seen them in the performance of their function: th...

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and...

Maybe from as early as when you're five or six, there's been a whisper going at the back of your hea...

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with one...

But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, an...

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity a...

The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted p...

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

Some people's taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye t...

It is the same in life; the heart changes, and that is our worst misfortune; but we learn of it only...

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every ar...

My point in mentioning this is only to say that people who feel any sort of regret where you are con...

There spoke the race!" he said; "always ready to claim what it hasn't got, and mistake its ounce of ...

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagi...

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

So, ‘sensation’ and ‘judgment’ have together lost their apparent clearness: we have observed that th...

If I walk along a shore towards a ship which has run aground, and the funnel or masts merge into the...

In all truth might it be said that beauty is the unique aliment of our soul, for in all places does ...

the real is coherent and probable because it is real, and not real because it is coherent...

We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of ...

The destruction of sight, wherever the injuries be sustained, follows the same law: all colours are ...

I do think that our perception of reality is fragmentary, and in 20th-century literature, it’s total...

Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine pro...

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that cele...

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle?...

Mostly you are what they think you are.

Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap....

Different creatures have different eyes. Human eyes (unlike, say, a cat's eyes, or an octopus's) are...

You can twist perception, reality won't budge

A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as ...

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the...

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.