Perception Quotes

The world, I soon learned, held a different estimate: and I make no doubt, the world is very right i...

Foreign behavior? What the fuck are you talking about? Foreign behavior? Have you read Things Fall A...

It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in ...

The flawlessly beautiful were flawlessy happy, weren't they? To Kristy this had always seemed self-e...

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cann...

All I want to convey to anyone who is suffering while they're young is that sometimes you get a repr...

...Understanding as had the ancients that angels and demons were identical- interchangeable archetyp...

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you ...

You will die, and when you die, you will know a profound lack of it [dignity]. It's never dignified,...

We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and ...

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead — like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky ...

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and ...

What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even d...

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

It bothered me that the bag bothered me more than head did, but what are you going to do? A person d...

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpr...

What you see is not what wee se. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all thi...

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see ...

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the...

Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, an...

When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more f...

Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can...

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique.

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change yo...

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see some...

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perc...

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead,...

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.