Perception Quotes

Just when I got done collecting these perception quotes, I realized I already posted a page of perception quotes 6 months ago! (see that link)

Don’t you dislike re-doing work?  Oh well, I hope you like these ones too:

Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. -Billy Joel

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. -Ursula K. LeGuin

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds o fantastic things are happening; when in fact, over most of the world most of the time, nothing is happening. -David Brinkley

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception. -Alan Moore

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone. -Martina Navratilova

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point. -Susan Sarandon

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. -Max Ehrmann

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. -Unknown

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is – infinite. -William Blake

One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. -Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. -Camille Pissarro

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. -C.S. Lewis

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Robertson Davies

All that glitters is not gold, and all that is sticky is not tar. -Lithuanian Proverb

Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius

To perceive means to immobilize … we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. -Henri Bergson

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one’s perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them. -Tom Robbins

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions. -Leonardo Da Vinci

What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly. -Lao-tzu

Every exit is an entry somewhere. -Tom Stoppard

If you have the time, please go check out the other page of perception quotes and tell me which one you like better.  Comments below. 🙂