Perception Quotes

That is the beauty of memory, isn’t it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi)

My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you saw that.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may.

World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.

The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.

Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception.

I wanted to reinvent horror comics. I felt like it was my mission to open people's eyes to the fact that horror comics could be so much more than the popular perception of them.

...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.

You can actually alter a person's perception when they're that young. I mean, it can affect them in a very positive way.

We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish. Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.

I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

President Obama fuels that perception. That will change when militants across the globe see that when you join ISIS that you are giving up your life, you are signing your death warrant.

ISIS is gaining strength because the perception is that they're winning. And President [Barack] Obama fuels that perception.

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

The common perception is it only happens to people who aren't paying attention.

Things are recalibrated according to new perspectives and perceptions. It's fascinating to me.

I learned quickly that if the student’s perception is that you’re not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

Whatever people do, they do for a reason and they think that it meets their needs....by their perception.

If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.

We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.

I'm a student of media and I've always been one. I'm fascinated by the way we make the world around us based on pictures and how can we improve our perception of this picture world.

Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower.

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Perceptions of impossibility are commonly disspelled by unmitigated courage and perseverance.

A perception of impossibility should never go unchallenged.

The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.

Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.

When you want full color perception, you must give up preferring some colors and hating others, for you can only hate one aspect of a color, not a whole color, it seems, hate being blind, like 'love.

I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.

When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.

There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard.

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there.

By perceiving the end of those illusive ideas and statuses as real, see yourself as though you have already accomplished what you have had a revelation to do. Then go, make it happen.

A dream is the frame or portrait or a construction or focus of one's vision by means of perception, based on what he or she knows and settles within via strategic thinking.

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling my

Look where we worship.

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: Infinite.

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.