Perception Quotes

We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone - the understanding has them, too.

~ Zhuangzi

Some people's taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye to that of a normal eye. Where a normal eye will see something clearly articulated, a weak eye will see a blurred patch of colour.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

A child of repeated infinity.

~ Rj Clawson

World with various situations has various relations,don't give conclusions with your perception.

~ Sai Nikhil Dinatkurthi

Parallel lines meet at infinity. Looking back from said point, do parallel lines ever not meet?

~ Rj Clawson

there can be no failure to a human who has not lost his courage, unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, human does not lose his being in the society in which he lives

~ Irak.ibrahim Hussain Didi

What is important may or may not be important but what is thought to be important is indeed important.

~ Hemanta Bhatt

What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception.

~ Rhonda Riley

He looked at me with the tired, ignorant, slightly stupid expression that is so common in people who aren't used to seeing the broader picture in small things.

~ Jonas Karlsson

Habitualization devours objects, clothes, furniture, one's wife, and the fear of war. If all the complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been. Art exists to help us recover the sensation of life; it exists to make us feel things, to make the stone stony. The end of art is to give a sensation of the object seen, not as recognized. The technique of art is to make things 'unfamiliar,' to make forms obscure, so as to increase the difficulty and the duration of perception. The act of perception in art is an end in itself and must be prolonged. In art, it is our experience of the process of construction that counts, not the finished product.

~ Victor Shklovsky

Though people are laughing at the dirt surrounding you, they are missing to see the seeds also planted, growing silently within.

~ Anthony Liccione

Sometimes we do grip the concert in a human head, and so hold it that in a way we get a record of it into paint, but the vision and expressing of one day will not do for the next.

~ Robert Henri

The human brain takes in information from other people and incorporates it with the information coming from its own senses, neuroscientist Gregory Berns has written. Many times, the group's opinion trumps the individual's before he even becomes aware of it.

~ Alexandra Robbins

Nonconformists aren't just going against the grain; they're going against the brain. Either their brains aren't taking the easy way out to begin with, or in standing apart from their peers, these students are standing up to their biology.

~ Alexandra Robbins

The Christian witness never benefits when Christian organizations are known more for what they are against than what they are for.

~ Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter

People are afraid of change. Change is inevitable to life. Change actually has the mask of pushing us out of comfort zone. Every time we learn, go through life experiences our perception/Emotional chemistry is changing. Embrace change because we are becoming a more polished version of ourselves.

~ Matthew Donnelly

If you perceive a world where there are separate images and you still feel a charge about anything, that is the indicator that you want to ask for Help. Lord, help me today. I am determined to see. Help me to see. That is where the openness and the humility come in. If you feel a charge about something, you not only are not seeing clearly, you are not seeing at all.

~ David Hoffmeister

Even the water, grey and listless as it tossed against the harbour wall, seemed fixed in time; as if peering hard enough into its depths would reveal the tips of Peter’s fingers, himself still swaying underwater, cradled in the sea’s mouth.

~ Ava Bloomfield

..the senses do not give us a picture of the world directly; rather they provide evidence for checking hypotheses about what lies before us. Indeed we may say that a perceived object is a hypothesis, suggested and tested by sensory data.

~ Richard Langton Gregory

Happiness is an inner perception, not an outer realistic conception.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is not in perfection but it is a perception in the midst of imperfection.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is there when perceptions and expectations are in joyful harmony.

~ Debasish Mridha

People do not change, only expression and perception changes.

~ Rd

Form is useful, but it is secondary.

~ Idries Shah

Noah had transformed in my eyes, too, butt it wasn't because he had changed. It was my perception of him had changed. He'd always been the cool person I'd come to know and respect, I'd just been blinded by my prejudices.

~ Lee Strauss

You can twist perception, reality won't budge

~ Neil Peart

Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception, not on the situation.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is a perception of what you have, not what you should have.

~ Debasish Mridha

If you want to change anything or your surroundingChange your perception, it will change everything.

~ Debasish Mridha

Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception Not on the situation.

~ Debasish Mridha

Why would you want to appear as one thing and be another? If you are a warrior then you are a warrior and if you are not a warrior then you are not a warrior. The Way of the warrior is the Way of the warrior. To be a warrior, look like a warrior and stand like a warrior. Do not be false to yourself.

~ Miyamoto Musashi

Perception through emptiness is existential, as the transience of all phenomena affirms the indivisibility of existence itself, before, within and behind all manifestation.

~ Georgi Y. Johnson

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

~ David Eagleman

Perception is the lens through which we interpret experiences,and when we change the lens we change how we experience.

~ Aisha Mirza

That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).

~ Idries Shah

Perception does not define who we are, but it does define where we are limited, and where we are not yet free.

~ Georgi Y. Johnson

Those without an idea of who you are make you become what they think.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.

~ Paul Arden

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)

~ Edward De Bono