Perception Quotes

Maybe from as early as when you're five or six, there's been a whisper going at the back of your head, saying: “One day, maybe not so long from now, you'll get to know how it feels.” So you're waiting, even if you don't quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realise that you really are different to them; that there are people out there, like Madame, who don't hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you – of how you were brought into this world and why – and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs. The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Sometimes the heart can hear what the ears do not.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Sometimes we must forge distance to gauge clarity in our vision and perception.

~ Aisha Mirza

I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.' Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?

~ Bill Hicks

Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.

~ Harold Bloom

The depth of your art is subject to originality, Your own authentic style.

~ Unarine Ramaru

People carry around with them internalization's fixed-feature space learned early in life. Man is like other members of the animal kingdom , first, last and always a prisoner of his biological organism. No matter how hard he tries, it is impossible for him to the best himself of his own culture, where it has penetrated to the roots of his nervous system and determines how he perceives the world.

~ Edward T. Hall

Foreign behavior? What the fuck are you talking about? Foreign behavior? Have you read Things Fall Apart? Ifemulu asked, wishing she had not told Ranyinudo about Dike. She was angrier with Ranyinudo than she had ever been, yet she knew that Ranyinudo meant well, and had said what many other Nigerians would say, which was why she had not told anyone else about Dike's suicide attempt since she came back.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

My point in mentioning this is only to say that people who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do, even if you're just quietly going about a life of your own choosing. They make you doubt yourself, which, depending on cases, can be a severe distraction and a waste of time. This is a thing I wish I had understood much earlier than I did.

~ Marilynne Robinson

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.

~ Jerry Spinelli

Fear is a perception to dare but not to scare.

~ Debasish Mridha

Clarity is a perception; it’s an emotional alignment of thoughts, intuitions, inclinations, expression and expectations.

~ Pearl Zhu

If having problems feels like a problem to you, it may not be the problems themselves, but the way you think about them that is the problem.

~ Steve Goodier

The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were inrepose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless.

~ Aldous Huxley

Time is a structured perception of human brain on natural events. Eternity ain't based on the human perception, but on perpetual cycle.

~ Toba Beta

What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

~ Criss Jami

When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

~ Shannon L. Alder

My heart goes out to some of those rather hostile yet highly intelligent individuals who may see problems really because they have solutions. That hostility is learned in defense; not offense. An often stubborn and prideful world, in its self-destructive, temporary bliss of ignorance, may be violently resistant to the watchful mind.

~ Criss Jami

Perception is blind to the knowledge that you cannot understand.

~ Lionel Suggs

We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.

~ Dashanne Stokes

I said once that lies have no rights against truth. I was wrong. In daily life, it's the truth that's disenfranchised. What fits the popular narrative, what makes an observer happy with the consistency of events, is what is believed.

~ Adrián Lamo

What smells good may not always taste good, I leaned this the day I tried to eat a scented candle.

~ Kenny D. Eichenberg

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

~ Nicholas Sparks

The only kind of universe that I can even begin to conceive is an inconceivable one.

~ Ilyas Kassam

Learn to see past the flaws and you will understand the perfection of the Universe.

~ Ka Chinery

Mind needs more than 3D perception to be able to see edge of the universe.

~ Toba Beta

He felt that race was not a characteristic that was a part of his identity, but one that was projected upon him by the gaze of others who looked on him; as such it was ephemeral, there and gone as soon as the gaze was broken.

~ Dexter Palmer

I felt good that, although there was no future, there would always be a past.

~ Stephen Reid

I love you because you loved me first. Yet you love me, saying I loved you first. Funny, our love thrives believing the other person started it.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the mortal enemy of spiritual awareness and soul growth.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

We each project to others a reflection of the world which includes our choices of perception.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I live in a world where people are guided by limited imagination; only facts that are favorable to them are truths. They are unable to live anyway else. When a person finds out that a fact is against them, it's usually because it's the truth. No one tries to step outside of the edge of reason. No one tries to step beyond the edge of the world.

~ Lionel Suggs

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

~ Lysa Terkeurst

How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.

~ Dashanne Stokes

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Alain De Botton