1,601 Quotes About Perception

Perception and reality are soul mates! They always support each other and even like to hide behind each other.

Experiment participants asked to pick which politician looked more confident in a photograph picked the winner of the race two thirds of the time. This phenomenon held up even when they only glimpsed the photographs for a 10th of a second.

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.

The poets have taught us how full of wonders is the night; and the night of blindness has its wonders, too. The only lightless dark is the night of ignorance and insensibility. We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond our senses.

If you thought with your minds and not your roosters, you would get the point.

Look, the truth belongs to the guy who's best at sticking to his story,' said Ferguson.

When we observe the words printed in a book, its paper, seemingly a foot away, is not being perceived--the image, the paper, is the perception.

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

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.