1,601 Quotes About Perception

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

It's all in the mind.

I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.

A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.

The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?""Wouldn't I know which one I was?""Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.