Perception Quotes

Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.

Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.

Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy

Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered.

Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

In New York, no one really cares who the hell you are. It's strange to be in the public eye where people have a perception of who you are, when they have never even met you.

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

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

Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.

In my view, the holy is not based so much on the physical environment, but on the experience and perceptions of it.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

I think there was always that question mark of why am I not in St. Louis anymore? I think everybody had those questions and probably had those perceptions of me.

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation

I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.

I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs development as urgently as his muscles.

Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception.

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.

As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

We're in a very unique time where noise equals, in a lot of people's perception, advocacy. And I fundamentally disagree with that.

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.

If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.

By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

We, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.

Brand perception is a brand’s reality

I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.

It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.

I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.