1,601 Quotes About Perception

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

So long as you see self and society as separate, you are living a delusion.

You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Most of the things we deem as impossible are only impossible because we’ve given them permission to be impossible.

You know what, sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves... And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.

Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole.