1,601 Quotes About Perception

Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.

Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself.

The whole world had given up on love anyway and clung instead to its malformed cousins: lust, narcissism, self-interest.

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

Nothing iseternal.Everything elseis not.

SENSES, APPEARANCE and ESSENCEThe world we see through our senses are very different than the world we see through our essence. Senses perceive the world of appearance. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is not to have any goal other than to understand. "Understanding" has to be the ultimate goal. Then, we can solve the problems.

But I have never wanted to be perceived as chatty and bright. I have always wanted to be solemn and mysterious.

Before I only wanted to change the world. I still want that, but it was ironic how I never wanted to change myself. Yet that's where revolutions start! And it's the only way revolutions can continue, if we keep looking inward, looking at how others might see us. That's what happened when I met Sofia. I saw myself the way she saw me.

Abbey relaxed, grateful not only that someone had thought to throw a party for her, but that she had been able to escape attending.