Quotes About Reality Vs Perception

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Frederick Lenz

#4. It's your choice what you want to say: compliments or complaints.

Sarvesh Jain

#5. Perception believed is reality achieved

Andy August

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.

J.R. Rim

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

Neeti Sinha

#10. Perception always makes precedence over reality
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Time explodes everything.

They will seek, we will create, they will find.

Fraser Beath McEwing

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Reality is just a matter of perception.

Fennel Hudson

#14. 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

#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. Many realities hidden behind wall of perception.

Toba Beta

#17. If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.

Aleatha Romig

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

#19. 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

#20. If perception is stronger then reality why don't we just perceive to have a good day.

Terry Blakeman

#21. You can twist perception
reality wont budge
you can raise objection
I won2t be judge and jury

Neil Peart

#22. 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

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

Mie Hansson

#24. If perception were reality, bats could fly through cave walls.

Marty Rubin

#25. 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

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

Becky Mallery

#27. 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

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

Paulo Coelho

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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