Perception Quotes

I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

There is evidence that acupuncture influences the production of and distribution of a great many neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and that this in turn alters the perception of pain.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

The object of my worship lies beyond perceptions reach. For those who see, the Ka'ba is a compass, nothing more.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

The media has enormous power. The media is undergoing huge changes now. It seemed like it's time to step back and look at how the media shapes our lives and our perceptions of reality.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

Just remember that nothing is as bad as it seems and nothing is as good as it sometimes appears.

It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Everything begins as an internal reality and then is externalized through perception.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

My road is towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I decipher in a new way the world unknown to you.

Synchronistic events offer us perceptions that may be useful in our psychological and spiritual growth and may reveal to us, through intuitive knowledge, that our lives have meaning.

We see things not as they are, but as we are. Our perception is shaped by our precious experiences.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

There is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you in just the right way and changes your whole perception of things.

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

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly.

Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception.

Perception and reality are two different things.

As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing "out there" is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.

You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.

I don't believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other.

Everything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything.

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion

I'm saying goodbye to people's perception of me and who I am, I'm not saying goodbye to me, because this has always been me.

All perception is a gamble.

It's all in the mind.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.

The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.