Quotes on Perception

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”

Oprah Winfrey

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

Eoin Colfer

“The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people’s perception of you is a reflection of them; your response to them is an awareness of you.”

Roy T. Bennett

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

Irving Berlin

“Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.”

Shannon L. Alder

“Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.”

David Sedaris

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

Robertson Davies

“A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it.”

Carroll Bryant

“Peace is a child's beautiful smile and a flower's freshnessPeace is an inner perception of joyfulness and happiness.”

Debasish Mridha

“Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the conclusion - it is still guessing.”

T.F. Hodge

“If there was no free will in men, then there is no sins. When sins happened, it was 'free will' that made them doable. This is true, unless God has predestined human to do and to have sins.”

Toba Beta

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Perception is reality to the one in the experience.”

Danielle Bernock

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

William Blake

“There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appearobvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact oppositemay also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is butperception, viewed through various prisms of context.”

Amish Tripathi

“Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter.”

Toba Beta

“There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth.”

Toba Beta

“If you can feel the future, then you are about to experience it.”

Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

“all appears to change when we change”

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped”

Alan Sheinwald

“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”

Criss Jami

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

William Blake

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

William Blake

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

Rabindranath Tagore

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

André Gide

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

Lana Del Rey

Trust not too much to appearances.

Virgil

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Leonardo da Vinci

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is no such thing as reality, only our perception of it.

Werner Herzog

I think a lot of people feel that they know me, but they really don’t.

Calvin Trillin

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

Paul McCartney

Love isn’t about wanting a hero; it’s about seeing the hero in the one you love.

Emma Chase

The sensations of our senses are the basis of all our knowledge.

Ernst Mach

What we call a thing is a bundle of sensations which we hold together.

Ernst Mach

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

Eric Berne

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation, and execution.

Ansel Adams

Truth is subjective; what is true for one person may not be true for another.

A.S. King

What you see depends mainly on what you look for.

Abigail Van Buren

Words create worlds; our language can reflect or obscure the reality we live in.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

In the midst of the ordinary, we find the extraordinary.

Ada Limón

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Adolf Hitler

Very few of us are what we seem.

Agatha Christie

The truth is a mirror, but we see it in fragments.

Akwaeke Emezi

It’s amazing what the human mind can do, and even more amazing what it refuses to do.

Alan Bradley

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

Alan Moore

We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Alan Watts

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley

There is no objective reality, only our perception of reality.

Aldous Huxley

There is no objective reality, only our perception of reality.

Aldous Huxley