Perception Of Reality Quotes

#1. We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe ... Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.

Albert Einstein

#2. The phrase 'perception is reality' is overused generally. But perception can be reality in monetary policy. The bond market doesn't act merely on what it sees. It acts on what it expects of the Fed or the government.

Amity Shlaes

#3. The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create objects out of images(symbols) ... The artist, like the eye, must provide true images and the clues of distance to tell his magic lies.

Colin Blakemore

#4. Two people can illustrate crudity to you.
The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.
The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one.

Idries Shah

#5. Everything we see ... is just the visible part of reality.

Paulo Coelho

#6. in simple terms, what you perceive as real, is actually a neurological reconstruction or simulation of the actual real thing. It's not as simple as saying, we see as it is. Actually we do not ever see as it is.

Abhijit Naskar

#7. There is no such thing as reality, only our perception of it.

Becky Mallery

#8. From the tiniest experience of your daily life to your grand perception of the universe, in various situations, the human brain tends to create its own myth and stories.

Abhijit Naskar

#9. What differentiated us was our perception of our mutual reality, which made no difference.

Mie Hansson

#10. The perception of meaning, as I see it, more specifically boils down to becoming aware of a possibility against the background of reality or, to express it in plain words, to becoming aware of what can be done about a given situation.

Viktor E. Frankl

#11. We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.

Amity Shlaes

#12. Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).

R. Buckminster Fuller

#13. We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of what's going on.

David Eagleman

#14. Many realities hidden behind wall of perception.

Toba Beta

#15. Attempting to express a person's objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing alters our perception of reality and amends our mental equilibrium.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#16. Different creatures have different eyes. Human eyes (unlike, say, a cat's eyes, or an octopus's) are only made to see one version of reality at a time.

Neil Gaiman

#17. Reality is just a matter of perception.

Fennel Hudson

#18. When it is recognized that there is nothing beyond what is seen of the mind itself, the discrimination of being and non-being ceases and, as there is thus no external world as the object of perception, nothing remains but the solitude of Reality.

Jack Kerouac

#19. Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull.

Abhijit Naskar

#20. Sense of beauty, perception, and the mathematical universe are all part of the same texture.

Neeti Sinha

#21. Any perception can connect us to reality, properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.

Chogyam Trungpa

#22. They really do feel under attack, rank-and-file officers and much of American police leadership, that they feel they're under attack from the federal government at the highest levels, so that's something we need to understand also, this sense of perception that becomes a reality.

William Bratton

#23. Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself.

Abhijit Naskar

#25. Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

Julia Penelope

#26. Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth, people appear to have children. But all of it's a dream. These are isolated moments that are only connected by perception. There is no separation.

Frederick Lenz

#27. Life is not what happens to us; it is what we perceive has happened to us.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#28. I stare out at the real world projected on the windows

Johnny Rich

#29. I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

Tamara Mellon

#30. The word 'monster' [monstrum] derives from 'demonstrare,' meaning to show or to demonstrate. Heresy and evolutionary change are thus mere intrusions into a homogenous perception of reality. My vocation, I decided, would be to make my life an example.

But of what?

Steve Abbott

#31. Beliefs and definitions never clarify how Reality works -- they only distort perception of it.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#32. It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth - all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#33. If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.

Audre Lorde

#34. Be not afraid of fear! Fear is a perception,
not a reality; it resides in imagination.

Debasish Mridha

#35. It's not how I take tragic news but how I make tragic views that unscrews me.

Brian Spellman

#36. Most religious individuals do not conceive God in an anthropomorphic or angry way. Rather, in their personal psychological domain of religious or spiritual beliefs, they conceive God in more abstract, spiritual and merciful way.

Abhijit Naskar

#37. Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.

Jaggi Vasudev

#38. How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality; narrowly or completely.

Bryant McGill

#39. Lachie slaps his arms around his body and hugs himself when he comes out of the water that's thick with the spaghetti of dark, leathery seaweed.
"Does it not try to drag you down to the bottom?" I say.
"No, sure it's like being stroked by mermaids" says Lachie.

Flora Kennedy

#40. People don't act the way they do because of me. They just act out their own projection of reality, and so do I.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#41. The concern of your brain is not to see the actual nature of reality, but to represent the reality to you in such a way that suits your needs.

Abhijit Naskar

#42. Reality is in the ether, a blend of present-day experiences infused with one's memories and dreams. A life that is real to one is surreal to another.

Fennel Hudson

#43. The reality of it, excuse me, is when you're in the public they already have a perception of you, ... And that can be a little awkward.

Joe Namath

#44. That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).

Idries Shah

#45. Since any effort always translates into more learning about a particular subject, we logically believe that we can determine our success in a linear fashion, but this doesn't happen because our self-image always filters our perception of reality.

Robin Sacredfire

#46. The moment that we hold some solidified idea about Reality- rather than relying on direct perception of the world- we inevitably give rise to anxiety and fear.

Steve Hagen

#47. Our only reality is our perception of reality.

Ruth Sanford

#48. All experiences, emotions, behaviors and beliefs, that make us humans, are the creation of various intricate and inexplicable molecular interactions within the brain.

Abhijit Naskar

#49. It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

Terry Pratchett

#50. How much of what is there do you allow yourself to see?

Ashly Lorenzana

#51. There are times when we may feel that God has abandoned us but in reality, that is just our perception. God never Abandons anyone.

The Prophet Of Life

#52. See your life as not just your life but as eternity. Be so completely integrated in the experience of perception that there's no sense of a perceiver but just the fluid moment of ecstasy that is reality unfolding itself to itself.

Frederick Lenz

#53. As though what he did were the excuse for their own boredom then, and lack of concern.
He is just like other people to them. He could easily have danced with a troupe of angels in Paradise every night and they wouldn't have guessed.

Eudora Welty

#54. Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#55. I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true.

Travis Walton

#56. There's this perception of D.C. as a boring town run by old white men, but in reality, there are incredibly young people in charge of really important things.

Kristin Gore

#57. You are not even seeing most of what's going on in the universe. On top of that, your brain filters out much of what it receives from the environment. So that what you are consciously aware of is only a fractional representation of your universe.

Abhijit Naskar

#58. Change is superficial. Transformation is deep. It alters our perception of reality and therefore causes everything in our life to shift. Transformation is what happens when we live our life rather than analyze it.

Frank Natale

#59. If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.

Jennifer Stone

#60. We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.

Stefan Zweig

#61. At the heart of the American paradigm is the perception that law and its agents . . . police officers, correctional officers, attorneys and judges . . . are color-blind and thus justice is impartial, objective and seeks la verdad (the truth). But, la realidad (reality) differs.

Martin Guevara Urbina

#62. You stimulate the neo-cortex, it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe. Your reality.

Henry Markram

#63. When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting yourself for who you really are - or, in this case, pretend something happened when it didn't. The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.

Michael J. Sullivan

#64. Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.

Sissy Spacek

#65. Our perception of time is indeed our reality.

Brigid Schulte

#66. The life you are living is your creation, your perception of reality that you can change at any time.

Dawn Abraham

#67. One can perceive me only with his limited vision. A droplet can't perceive the extent of the ocean.

~ Aarush Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

#68. Our perception of reality has less to do with what's happening out there, and more to do with what's happening inside our brain. Your

David Eagleman

#69. Life is mental; it's all about attitude. The majority of it is lived in your head.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#70. What is different is not necessarily dangerous, and what is similar is not always secure.

T.F. Hodge

#71. cognitive scientists studying human perception agree: we don't experience objective reality; we experience a model of objective reality that our brain creates for us.

Steve Volk

#72. Perception is a vice with which each person is capable of perceiving his or her reality.

Asa Don Brown

#73. In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

Barack Obama

#74. Silence is the language of nature and beauty where perception and feelings are the only reality.

Debasish Mridha

#75. I am telling you that your perception of ultimate reality is more limited than you thought, and that Truth is more unlimited than you can imagine.

Neale Donald Walsch

#76. Our perception of what's real is always changing and that never changes.

Marty Rubin

#77. The causal, abstract, binary, holistic, and reductionist functions of the human brain all help you to process the enormous amount of information coming into our brain from the external world every day.

Abhijit Naskar

#78. After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

Jim Harrison

#79. I guess love distorts our perception of reality, and it's even harder to recognize the truth when it's buried underneath layers of what we imagine relationships should be like.

Shannon Mullen

#80. It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other form of media. And it can change people's perception of each other. And that's how I think virtual reality has the potential to actually change the world.

Chris Milk

#81. Stop trying to explain yourself. People only understand things from their level of perception; within the parameters of their agreement with reality. Save your energy.

Steve Maraboli

#82. The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

Walter Benjamin

#83. The coma carried me into a world where time and space seemed to vanish; it was a dreamlike existence in which people, places, and situations shifted as quickly as thoughts. I had a profound sense of being at a crossroads, a turning point, somewhere between death and life ...

Hal Zina Bennett

#84. Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.

Benjamin Hoff

#85. The lives we live are a bit of a straight-hair vs. curly-hair thing. We often want what we don't have. In reality, it's not about better or worse; it's just perception.

Simon Sinek

#86. People relates the process of evolution, as growth and success in the material world, rather in reality, the process of evolution, is all about, how you perceive life, with your understanding, in the present moment.

Roshan Sharma

#87. We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#88. It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

Leonard Shlain

#89. The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#90. How different would our perception of reality be if ... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

Robin Hobb

#91. We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.

Walter Lippmann

#92. But love is a fluid thing. It's not the same for every person. The concept is. The reality isn't. When you hear people talking, they're usually trying to validate their own perception of what love is, or what it means to be in love.

Brandon Shire

#93. To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight

Ayn Rand

#94. When we look at an object in a different way our perception of it immediately changes. But reality always stays the same ...

Sergio Pinto

#95. The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

James Baldwin

#96. The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium.

Matt LeBlanc

#97. In every walk of life, you do have the freedom to choose, but that freedom is based on the perception of the world and yourself which you have gained until that moment of life.

Abhijit Naskar

#98. 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.

Rabih Alameddine

#99. Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#100. Perception through emptiness is existential, as the transience of all phenomena affirms the indivisibility of existence itself, before, within and behind all manifestation.

Georgi Y. Johnson