1,601 Quotes About Perception

The philosophical implications of "predictive coding" are deep and strange. The model suggests that our perceptions of the world offer us not a literal transcription of reality but rather a seamless illusion woven from both the data of our senses and the models in our memories.

When he walked out of my life after three years, he was the same person who had entered my life three years earlier. I’d formed an image out of my perception. I thought he was what I wanted him to be.

Perception is not a straightforward phenomenon. Instead of a widespread view concerning this, we all learn, consciously or unconsciously, how to perceive reality ourselves. To realise why reality seems like this to you, determine how you practised how to perceive it.

What is truth, may not be the reality we see, and what is reality may not be the truth.

Clarity is a perception; it’s an emotional alignment of thoughts, intuitions, inclinations, expression and expectations.

The world we live in, i.e., the life we perceive, is a perfect reflection, a mirror image, of our internal reality.

How we define and frame the world around us creates our so-called reality.

Wisdom comes from knowing that what others say about you is not your reality. It’s their reality.

What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in.