Perception Quotes

I know that mirrors give us a false sense of confidence.” I continued. “The reflection that we see everyday has nothing to do with how others see us. The glass lies.

~ Rasmenia Massoud

Don’t ever perceive other people’s success as your own failure.

~ Rob Liano

Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.

~ Vera Nazarian

The Church is full of Hypocrites! Yes, it is, and thank God for that, it means the church is doing its job. The church wants hypocrites, adulterers, thieves, and more, for the church is where we receive healing. To condemn the church because it has failed members is to condemn a hospital because it's full of sick people. All are welcome; you are welcome here.

~ Lee Goff

It takes darkness inside of a person to see it in others.

~ Amy Neftzger

In any case, you can't have effective allegory in times when people are swept this way and that by momentary convictions, because everyone will read it differently. You can't indicate moral values when morality changes with what is being done, because there is no accepted basis of judgment. And you cannot show the operation of grace when grace is cut off from nature or when the very possibility of grace is denied, because no one will have the least idea of what you are about.

~ Flannery O'connor

Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ H. Rider Haggard

There are no higher levels of consciousness, there are only different ways of perceiving things.

~ Marty Rubin

Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Our mistakes rewire our brain and open up new gateways of perception.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Every living creature on this planet, has a conscious subjective perspective of the world. The plants may seem to us as standing indifferent to the human sufferings, but even they have their own unique mental universe. They have their own way of interacting with the environment.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Its not the eyes, that makes the visualization of the external world possible, but its the perception out of the awareness field. Your eyes are the same, but you view two person differently.

~ Roshan Sharma

We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead — like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe — far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.

~ David Eagleman

Most people like mirrors; what they do not like, is people, who are mirrors.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Through mastering the means of perception, the promise of who you are in physical form is opened with an increasing opportunity for fulfilment.

~ Georgi Y. Johnson

Love is the perception of perfection beyond the protection of our projection.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The shortest interval between two points is the awareness that they are not two.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands? I speculated such a suggestion could be seen as a serious deviancy. Melphi seemed delited. Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror. I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Melphi relplied, History suggests, not until they are made to.

~ David Mitchell

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

~ C.g. Jung

Do you know what the difference is between knowing a bird and knowing about a bird?

~ Lionel Suggs

To see more than a reflection requires us to filter what we see, to view the world with honest eyes.

~ Fennel Hudson

Choice and perception are closely linked. They are unique, personal and emotional.

~ Fennel Hudson

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

~ Criss Jami

Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.

~ Wally Lamb

Even the right is wrong from the other side.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

~ Pascal Mercier

Happiness does not depend on a possession. Happiness depends on action and perception.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness comes from action, not from reaction. It is a feeling, not the success, but the perception.

~ Debasish Mridha

Choice-Judgement.Black coffee acidon an empty stomach.Perception.Cool, clear water.

~ Keelie Breanna

Perception is reality to the one in the experience.

~ Danielle Bernock

Accumulated experience always alters perception of the past.

~ Siri Hustvedt

Perception of one's life journey does not, always or necessarily, have to be judged as good or bad. It certainly demands that one take responsibility for all aspects of it, however.

~ T.f. Hodge

Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice, reading books in middle age is like looking at the moon in one's courtyard, and reading books in old age is like looking at the moon on an open terrace.

~ Lin Yutang

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

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein