Perception quotes
Welcome to our Perception quotes page! Here, you will find a collection of insightful and thought-provoking quotes that explore the intriguing concept of perception. As humans, our perception shapes our understanding of the world around us. It influences how we interpret events, communicate with others, and make decisions.
Throughout history, philosophers, psychologists, and thinkers from various disciplines have contemplated the nature of perception. They have delved into questions such as: How does perception influence our reality? How do our senses shape the way we experience the world? How does our perception affect our relationships and interactions with others?
On this page, you will encounter quotes from renowned figures who have offered their unique perspectives on perception. These quotes encompass a wide range of topics, including the power of perception, the limits of our senses, the role of bias and prejudice in perception, and the importance of introspection and self-awareness. Whether you are seeking inspiration, reflection, or simply a deeper understanding of the human experience, our Perception quotes page is sure to provide you with plenty to contemplate.
So, take a moment to explore the Perception category and allow these quotes to challenge your own perception, broaden your horizons, and encourage you to see the world through a different lens.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorThe secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else to perceive in it the emotions you have invested in it. Once this is understood, all will be well.
Sofia Vergara
— ActressI think I'm going to be stereotyped forever, but I'm not scared of being stereotyped.
Tommy Smothers
— ComedianI'm an American, I don't have to see something to know it's stupid!
Antonio Machado
— PoetUnder all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits
Patricia Piccinini
— ArtistI think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I'm a strange a looking creature.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsA poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerThere must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestThought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are thing-ing. Thought does not report things, it distorts reality to create things, and as Bergson noted, "In so doing it allows what is the very essence of the real to escape." Thus to the extent we actually imagine a world of discrete and separate things, conceptions have become perceptions, and we have in this manner populated our universe with nothing but ghosts.
Mary Ellen Chase
— New England's Literary VoiceChristmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerDon't confuse visibility with credibility.
Daniel Craig
— Iconic James Bond ActorI don't see the world in sexual divisions.
M. F. K. Fisher
— Pioneering Food WriterBut if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorPeople have to go out of their mind before they can come to their senses.
Adlai Stevenson I
— American PoliticianDo you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
Alan Alda
— American ActorWhat is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.
Andy Warhol
— American ArtistI always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
— American actor, producer, retired professional wrestler and former American football and Canadian football playerThere are signs around us all the time, and a lot of the time we don’t see them. But sometimes we do, and those become the greatest lessons.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorYou people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWhile we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one
Sofia Vergara
— ActressI think that would be ungrateful if I were upset because I'm seen as attractive or sexy. That's opened so many doors for me in my life.
Antonio Machado
— PoetBetween living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.
Patricia Piccinini
— ArtistI don't set out to make something that is repulsive and that would scare people. I know that some people don't like what I make, and don't find it cute, but that's hard for me to understand.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsIn every queen there's a touch of floozy.
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerAfter all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestWe have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerMany people may listen, but few people actually hear.
M. F. K. Fisher
— Pioneering Food WriterIt is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorThe Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorWas it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
Antonio Machado
— PoetThe only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.
Patricia Piccinini
— ArtistIt's much easier to do something that's seen as being serious because people accept it right away, they don't question what you do, they just accept, because they think you must be right.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsPeople are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerAn idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestWho would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerI know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know.
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorThe brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorCritics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWe accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsHis words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerFidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestThe mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it, which we cut to pieces by recklessly applying the murderous knife of intellectual surgery?
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerYou'll always get the good news; it's how fast you get the bad news that counts.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorThat's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsTo perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerA map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorParadox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsI believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.
Joyce Carol Oates
— Author... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorThere is nothing "ordinary" about reality.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorBeauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterMy books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorNot what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWe (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorEven if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterYou have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorHer problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterYou can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorYet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorOne man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThen I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and pieces, and yet I know what it is, with that bold and legitimate certainty with which we assert our knowledge of a city, without ever having been rewarded with the intimacy of all the many streets it includes.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterAnother school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWe are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterHe thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterA writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.