Perception Quotes

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.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have,...

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crysta...

We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day.We feel, ...

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and e...

Here's something else I'd like your opinion about," I said. "If he went back underground and sat dow...

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what hap...

Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without t...

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a st...

There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boar...

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

We all see only that which we are trained to see.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as others see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free ...

Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh...

There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thin...

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her ...

Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so...

The sun, like a golden knife, was steadily paring away the edge of the shade beside the walls.The st...

Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not huma...

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.

There are three types of actions: purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters, to be immediate ...

The yellow eyes had fallen from the tired star. Lorq's face erupted about the scar at some antic fro...

I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality ...

We have grown to trust blindly in our senses of balance and reason, and I can see where the mind mig...

We have grown to trust blindly in our senses of balance and reason, and I can see where the mind mig...

We have grown to trust blindly in our senses of balance and reason, and I can see where the mind mig...

We have grown to trust blindly in our senses of balance and reason, and I can see where the mind mig...

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.

People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, fre...

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daug...

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappo...

His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend.

Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners. The dead were ...

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature ple...

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of ...

So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ...

Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to ...

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presenc...

After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw...

Well, the terrible fact is that though we are all more or less thinking of something or other all th...

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ea...

A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand...

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Silverfish looked down."Oh. Are you a dwarf?"Cuddy gave him a blank stare."Are you a giant?" He said...

It’s a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wro...

As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as th...

She never sent the castle to sleep”, said Granny, “that’s just an old wife’s tale. She just stirred ...

Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possi...

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the card...

Perception and reality are two different things.

If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but...

What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a co...

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 ...