1,601 Quotes About Perception

People say the darkness is where secrets are best hidden. Night time brings clarity and focus to owls, even if the aperture of this vision comes with a stigma.

It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.

People can find patterns in all kinds of random events. It's called apophenia. It's the tendency we humans have to find meaning in disconnected information.

To Declare Your Stand For Righteousness Is Not To Regard The Perception Of Others

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

Our only reality is our perception of reality.

For the merest moment I couldn't breathe. Something inside me quivered, some oud string plucked by his words, and if I breathed it would stop.He did not know the truth of me, yet he had perceived something true about me that no one else had ever noticed. And in spite of that—or perhaps because of it—he believed me good, believed me worth taking seriously, and his belief, for one vertiginous moment, made me want to be better than I was.

How I look to you is the reflection of how you look at me.

You look up for a moment and you're not sure which life is real. You've split yourself into so many honeycombed parts that they barely notice each other---all of them pacing, concurrently, parallel streams of though, and each one thinks of its self as me.