1,601 Quotes About Perception

Reality is water-soluble.What we could see, the rocks, the shore, the trees, the boats on the lake, had lost their usual definition and blurred into the long grey of a week’s rain. Even the house, that we fancied was made of stone, wavered inside a heavy mist and through that mist, sometimes, a door or a window appeared like an image in a dream.Every solid thing had dissolved into its watery equivalent.

Most of our pain originates and is felt between our ears.

True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant.

The horror was, Cleopatra meant something to these modern people of the twentieth century which was altogether wrong. She had become a symbol of licentiousness, when in fact she had possessed a multitude of amazing talents. They had punished her for her one flaw by forgetting everything else…Remembered, but not for what she was. A painted whore lying on a silken couch. - Ramses

Time, an invaluable perception of reality.

- So you don't believe me- No- Why, if you don't mind my asking- Because what you say doesn't fit with my reality and what doesn't fit with my reality doesn't exist

Consciousness is a result of environment. Our cognitions - our idea of reality - are shaped by what we can perceive, by the limitations of our senses.

Often your brain makes you believe, what you see is truly real, even when it is not.

Consciousness is a result of environment. Our cognitions -- our idea of reality—are shaped by what we can perceive, by the limitations of our senses. We think we’re seeing the world as it really is, but… it’s all just shadows on the cave’s wall.