Perception Quotes

Why does truth carry such a dreadful face? Why does subjugation carry such a happy mask? It becomes sad when people understand that they can lead a better life as long as they bow their heads, ignoring the truth.

Lionel Suggs

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

Al Neuharth

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.

Tan Twan Eng

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

Karl Pearson

The truth is helpless when up against perception

Zack W. Van

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

Seamus Heaney

People assume when my hair is long, that I'm a lot cooler than I actually am. I'm not opposed to this misconception.

Malcom Gladwell

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

Ann Brashares

There are times when the truth can only show you an illusion.

Lionel Suggs

What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?

Marty Rubin

Smartass Disciple: But, you said that it's the truth??Master of Stupidity: O Yes. That is yesterday's truth.

Toba Beta

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Mark Twain

Your perceptions create your reality.

Steve Maraboli

For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarchic and purposeless forces - and he needed days of repose to see it clothe itself again with the illusions of his senses, the white purity of its snows, the splendor of its light, and the infinity of its heavenly peace. Nature was kind; Lake Geneva was beautiful beyond itself, and the Alps put on charms real as terrors.

Henry Adams

I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment.

Rick Allen

Impossibility only lasts until you find new unbelievable hard evidences.

Toba Beta

You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality.

Steve Maraboli

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend

Aldous Huxley