Perception Quotes

The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build ...

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famou...

All incoming bits of information have, simultaneously, a tentacular, optic, and sexual dimension. It...

You forget, my good man, that what the artist perceives is, primarily, the difference between things...

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, th...

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar b...

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in...

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: Infinite.

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man...

Still, we permit the appearance of our meats, sauces, fruits, and vdgetables to dominate our tongues...

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and ...

We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and dr...

Whatever his weight in pounds and ounces, he always seems bigger because of his bounces.

He has neither what I call the outward vision (seeing details all around you what is called an obser...

When he passed me in the restaurant," he said at last, "I had a curious impression. It was as though...

The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history ...

Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and...

A storyteller who provided us with such a profusion of details would rapidly grow maddening. Unfortu...

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe dir...

I'm a human being and I've got thoughts and secrets and bloody life inside me that he doesn't know i...

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

The world' is man's experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundan...

For Persons are selves and, in one respect at least, I was now a Not-self, simultaneously perceiving...

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went...

The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hithe...

For until this morning I had known contemplation only in its humbler, its more ordinary forms - as d...

Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of ...

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer ...

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant...

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The wr...

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has nev...

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be...

We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes....Abstract ...

I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.

Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas i...

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

On hearing of the interesting events which have happened in the course of a man's experience, many p...

No! I don't want to speak of that! But I'm going to. I want you to hear. I want you to know what's i...

Andrei, did you like the opera?""Not particularly.""Andrei, do you see what you're missing?""I don't...

I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it tak...

Clothing doesn't really change a man. But it changes how others react to him.

Tobias took the photograph. At least, that's what I saw. Most likely I still had the photograph in m...

Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception

Shallan’s mental image of Jasnah Kholin was of someone almost divine. It was, upon reflection, an od...

Truth is individual.”“What? No it’s not. Truth is . . . it’s Truth. Reality.”“Your truth is what you...

We're eye doctors.""What's something about the eye that most people don't realize?""The eye doesn't ...

One day you're waiting for the sky to fallThe next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on wh...

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance o...

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...