1,601 Quotes About Perception

I see everything outside of me through the lens of everything that is inside of me. Therefore, before I look at the world outside I’d be wise to look at the lens inside.

Every moment, we create a new reality, and then the earlier reality loses its accountability.

The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrows, is always a measure of what has gone before

Writers strive to create definitive statements but forget that their work is often viewed through the cracked spectacles of perception. Others can take what is written, twist it to their own agenda and present it back to the author as fact, contrary to the original intention.

O wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as ithers see us!It wad frae mony a blunder free us,An' foolish notion:What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,An' ev'n devotion!

Perception of reality emerges from the brain and dissolves in the brain.

Consider that you are not always going to be right in the way you interpret another person's words or actions. In the same way, as others are sometimes wrong about your intentions. Be a little more patient, a little more kind, a little more forgiving. Take a moment, take a breath, pause before you react. Don't be so quick to write people off.

Feeling happy is not conditional.

Time is a curious dimension - habit of the preconceived notion can easily reverse the hand of a clock, and yet the clock is still in perfect working order.