Perception Quotes

Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners. The dead were all around, but living people saw them no more than they could smell most of the ten thousand aromas that surrounded them every minute of every day.

~ Stephen King

Mathilde saw her own face reflected in the window, but no, it was a barn owl on a low branch in the cherry trees. She could barely master herself. She had never expected this. These women, such kindness, their eyes shining in the dim room. They saw her. She didn't know why, but they saw her, and they loved her even still.

~ Lauren Groff

When you see something that is wrong, there is something that has to be right.

~ J.r. Rim

The past is gone, and tomorrow is an illusion. There is only now.

~ William Donelson

People are entitled to different opinions and views. Just because somebody doesn't agree with you doesn't mean they're wrong. Within the context of their reality they feel just as right, as you do within the context of your reality. Appreciate and respect that and perhaps in time you'll find even ground.

~ Deon Potgieter

But rock, of course, is many colors. The distinction is subtle, but it is not just one plain grey, that I can promise...I spent five hours one afternoon just staring at a rock trying to see into its color scheme.

~ Aimee Bender

I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.

~ Saul Bellow

Truth is a broken mirror, but it can still help anyone to see clearly.

~ Amy Neftzger

The things you say, the things you don't say, the things you do, or the things you don't do are always sending a loud message to those around you. What kind of a message are you sending? Is it a true reflection of who you are?

~ Lindsey Rietzsch

You’ll always come back to warn him, no matter how much danger it could put you in, no matter what it costs you, because he cared for you when you thought you were nothing. You were never nothing. That didn’t matter. Perception is everything in this world

~ Seanan Mcguire

Think about people in your own life who you have envied for one reason or another. It may surprise you to know that they do not see themselves the way that you do. Maybe they are all smiles on the outside but have personal struggles and trials that you would never guess from first glance.

~ Lindsey Rietzsch

Nobody would have been able to understand the depth of my joy and the extent of my happiness unless they had themselves gone through what I just had.

~ Preeti Shenoy

. . . I'm not pretty, not close up anyway. Generally, the closer people get to me the less hot they find me.

~ Margo Roth Spiegelman

You forget, my good man, that what the artist perceives is, primarily, the difference between things. It is the vulgar who note their resemblance.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

An eminent philosopher among my friends, who can dignify even your ugly furniture by lifting it into the serene light of science, has shown me this pregnant little fact. Your pierglass or extensive surface of polished steel made to be rubbed by a housemaid, will be minutely and multitudinously scratched in all directions; but place now against it a lighted candle as a centre of illumination, and lo! the scratches will seem to arrange themselves in a fine series of concentric circles round that little sun. It is demonstrable that the scratches are going everywhere impartially, and it is only your candle which produces the flattering illusion of concentric arrangement, its light falling with an exclusive optical selection. These things are a parable. The scratches are events, the candle is the egoism of any party now absent.

~ George Eliot

The author found participants in a study able to come up with more reasons to support their position but not anymore likely to change their minds based on contradictory evidence. In effect, they enlist their IQ on behalf of their instincts.

~ Jonathan Haidt

The poets have taught us how full of wonders is the night; and the night of blindness has its wonders, too. The only lightless dark is the night of ignorance and insensibility. We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond our senses.

~ Helen Keller

Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.

~ George F. Will

The world, I soon learned, held a different estimate: and I make no doubt, the world is very right in its view, yet believe also that I am not quite wrong in mine.

~ Charlotte Brontë

It is not what happens to us that causes our pain and suffering, it is our thinking pattern and perception of our experiences that create our reality and contribute to our well-being or suffering

~ Renee Cefalu

Perception is the reality in the absence of fact.

~ Pieter Bf Swart

All you do is think. Because all you do is think, you've constructed two separate worlds—one inside your head and one outside. Just the fact that you tolerate this enormous dissonance—why, that's a great intangible failure already.

~ Sōseki Natsume

When we have a narrative in mind, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it.

~ Nicholas Kristof

Signal transduction science recognizes that the fate and behavior of an organism is directly linked to its perception of the environment.

~ Bruce H. Lipton

It took me some time to sleep last night, I lowered the temp of AC that it might help but still it took a while, while coming back from Fajr I saw a street sweeper sleeping on the road near the wall of a big house behind a parked car, it was 29C without any breeze and he was in deep sleep with snoring loud enough to be audible 10 feet away, surely our perception of things which will bestow us with peace is clouded

~ Nauman Khan

Young man, Mr. Aubrey has made us so rich that we can now afford to worry about our image.

~ David Halberstam

You don't trust what you don't know, and you don't know, what you don't trust.

~ Yusuf Saleem

Your perception of your dream changes as you walk toward it.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

~ Gregory Bateson

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

~ Tom Clancy

We are all so happy. If we only could realize it.

~ Pat R

Diplomacy was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

~ Tom Clancy

Often pain is not real but just a perception.

~ Debasish Mridha

It is so easy to practice a creditable degree of so seeming virtue, and so difficult to purify and direct the affections of the heart, that I feel myself in continual danger of appearing better than I am; and I verily believe it is possible to make one’s whole life a display of splendid virtue and agreeable qualities, without ever setting foot towards the narrow path, or even one’s face towards the strait gate.” – Hannah More

~ Karen Swallow Prior

Her changing perception of time had altered the sum of her reflections.

~ Lori Lansens

A day is a day. It’s just a measurement of time. Whether it’s a good day or a bad day is up to you. It’s all a matter of perception.

~ Donald L. Hicks

Some trees grow straight, while others grow gnarled and twisted. Yet none are imperfect. Perfection is merely a perception.

~ Donald L. Hicks

nothing changes from one generation to another except the things seen and the things seen make that generation, that is to say nothing changes in people from one generation to another except the way of seeing and being seen.

~ Gertrude Stein

Eyes that are blind have no way to tell the loveliness of faces and features, eyes with no pupils have no way to tell the beauty of colored and embroidered silks.

~ Zhuangzi