Perception Quotes

It's been said that people see what they want to see. For that exact reason, look for the good in people, rather than the bad.

~ Donald L. Hicks

What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you.

~ Donald L. Hicks

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey—and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

~ George Gaylord Simpson

What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

~ Idries Shah

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Life is mental, it's all about attitude. The majority of it is lived in your head.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be.

~ Marty Rubin

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

~ Edith Hamilton

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves, we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

~ Natalie Goldberg

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

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.

~ Criss Jami

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

~ Martha Graham

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

~ Dorothea Lange

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

~ Oscar Wilde

Silverfish looked down.Oh. Are you a dwarf?Cuddy gave him a blank stare.Are you a giant? He said.Me? Of course not!Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.

~ Terry Pratchett

No perspective, no perception.New perspective, new perception.

~ Toba Beta

When you're at peace, you embrace the eternity.When you're confused, you be dazzled by doomsday.

~ Toba Beta

The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominoes falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to the ground, from a different vantage point it appeared knocked upright, ready to be slapped and fall again. Everything was not merely relative, it was--how to put it? --relevant. Representational. Revealing. Referential and reverential both.

~ Gregory Maguire

Utopia is a collective shift of perception away. Abundance is all around us. Only our efforts at tower-building blind us to it, our gaze forever skyward, forever seeking to escape this Earth, this feeling, this moment.

~ Charles Eisenstein

If you simply get detach from yourself, it gets easier for you to see, how you perceive life.

~ Roshan Sharma

You can only carry the illusive personality in your mind until you realize the truth behind it, but the time you realize the truth, you just cannot hold the illusive self of yours, in the mind.

~ Roshan Sharma

I believe we are the ones who hurt ourselves the most, by how we receive, by how we perceive.

~ Akiroq Brost

Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception

~ Neal Shusterman

The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely a naturalist is that the Christian novelist lives in a larger universe. He believes that the natural world contains the supernatural. And this doesn't mean that his obligation to portray the natural is less; it means it is greater.

~ Flannery O'connor

He has neither what I call the outward vision (seeing details all around you what is called an observant person) nor the inner vision--concentration, the focusing of the mind on one object. He has a purposefully limited vision. He sees only what blends and harmonises with the bent of his mind.

~ Agatha Christie

Your perception is your habitual perspective. The way you consciously choose to see life on a regular basis. The moment that you are aware of your perspective and detach to see things from a different point of view (Even SLIGHTLY) is the moment that your entire complexity from within you changes.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Truth is universal. Perception of truth varies.

~ Bohdi Sanders

Are you really a doctor?” I asked.“Some people say that.”“Why?”“Because I went to medical school.”“Did you not finish?” I asked hesitantly.“I finished.”“So…?”“So sometimes I work as a doctor.”“So doesn’t that make you a doctor?”“I guess, but I also worked as a baker, construction worker, and a bunch of other things. Either way I just prefer being known as Jack. I mean Dr. Baker Jack Hammer Jack, would be entertaining, but I think also a little weird.

~ Michael Brent Jones

The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams' character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed Milton's works enough to feel comfortable quoting them from memory.

~ David Mccullough

The Law Polarity decrease that everything has an opposite it's the flip side of the coin, you're right my left, consider this next time you disagree with someone because their right from their point of view.

~ Bob Proctor

I love objectivity when mine.

~ Brian Spellman

If I walk along a shore towards a ship which has run aground, and the funnel or masts merge into the forest bordering on the sand dune, there will be a moment when these details suddenly become part of the ship, and indissolubly fused with it. As I approached, I did not perceive resemblances or proximities which finally came together to form a continuous picture of the upper part of the ship. I merely felt that the look of the object was on the point of altering, that something was imminent in this tension, as a storm is imminent in storm clouds.Suddenly the sight before me was recast in a manner satisfying to my vague expectation. Only afterwards did I recognize, as justifications for the change, the resemblance and contiguity of what I call ‘stimuli’— namely the most determinate phenomena, seen at close quarters and with which I compose the ‘true’ world. ‘How could I have failed to see that these pieces of wood were an integral part of the ship? For they were of the same colour as the ship, and fitted well enough into its superstructure.’ But these reasons for correct perception were not given as reasons beforehand. The unity of the object is based on the foreshadowing of an imminent order which is about to spring upon us a reply to questions merely latent in the landscape. It solves a problem set only in the form of a vague feeling of uneasiness, it organizes elements which up to that moment did not belong to the same universe and which, for that reason, as Kant said with profound insight, could not be associated. By placing them on the same footing, that of the unique object, synopsis makes continuity and resemblance between them possible. An impression can never by itself be associated with another impression.

~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly believes the lies they are told, without question.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You won't change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

~ Mary E. Demuth

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle, its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

~ Criss Jami

Sometimes you don't need to change what you're looking at only get a better view.

~ Christopher Hawke

Each of us sees things not as they are but as we are.

~ Jack Provonsha

True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant.

~ Chris Messner

Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that, for a moment, our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there around us always.

~ Willa Cather