Perception Quotes

While your beliefs may change over time, the truth will not

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

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

I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Perception is the reality in the absence of fact.

I stopped explaining myself when I realized other people only understand from their level of perception.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One Fails Before One Perception...!

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

One Fails Before One's Perception...!

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.

A child of repeated infinity.

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

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

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

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.

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.

You must not grieve that the world is glimpsed through veils. How else can it be seen?

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

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.

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

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

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

People do not change, only expression and perception changes.

Everything is all right. You just need the perception to find it right.

Form is useful, but it is secondary.

You can twist perception, reality won't budge

It's Not How Good You Are... But How Good They Think You Are - That Matters!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)