1,601 Quotes About Perception

Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

It is a common perception that actors don’t get along.

Now I think that perception is much, much different.

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed the level of what appalls, what stuns, what shocks.

Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

What I had to learn was, that I'm responsible for my perception of things.