Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. — John Lennon
Do we choose to see possibilities? Do we really believe that they're there? Perception controls our reality, and if we don't believe it, we won't see it. — Dewitt Jones
There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values. — David Myers
Reality isn't the way you wish things to be nor the way they appear to be but the way they actually are. — Robert Ringer
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. — Tupac Shakur
Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be. — Frank Zappa
The perceived risk and actual risk are two different things. — Naved Abdali
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. — Philip K. Dick
If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility. — Robert Musil
Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow. — Luigi Pirandello
When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you. — Marya Hornbacher
Short Perception Reality Quotes
Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol. — N. F. Simpson
We see things as we are, not as they are. — Leo Rosten
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. — Robert Breault
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination. — Osho
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. — Jean-Luc Godard
Reality whistles a different tune underwater. — Tom Robbins
Reality is something you rise above. — Liza Minnelli
Reality denied comes back to haunt. — Philip K. Dick
The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be." — Richard P. Feynman
Perception Reality Image Quotes
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
Perception Is Not Reality Quotes
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
Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don’t even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality. — Robert Anton Wilson
Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality. — Shannon Alder
If you eyes are opened, you'll see the things worth seeing.
Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception. — Jaggi Vasudev
Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that. — Bill Cowher
Perception is NOT reality. People have always said that - perception is reality. I reject that hypothesis. — Jim Harbaugh
Some people feel the rain. Other just get wet.
... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different. — Gabriel Orozco
Perception is real even when it is not reality. — Edward De Bono
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
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
Perception Becomes Reality Quotes
Opportunity arises when the gap between reality and perception becomes significant. — Francois Rochon
Your opinion of yourself becomes your reality. — 50 Cent
We wear different masks and hide our reality from everyone, including ourselves. Our assumed identities become our whole lives, and we start to believe them — even more than others do. — Mo Gawdat
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality. — William James
Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it. — Hannah Arendt
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
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It's a big problem for Hillary Clinton. — Carly Fiorina
I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful. — Sean Parker
When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes of little value in his eyes, while his spirit possesses
itself in the enjoyment of the reality. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality. — Tim LaHaye
Perception Is Reality Quotes
I want to see truth. I want to see the world the way it is. — Naval Ravikant
People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality. — Nhat Hanh
The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story. — Byron Katie
Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.
Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life. — Shannon Alder
There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence. — Deepak Chopra
Reality is neutral. Our reactions reflect back and create our world. Judge, and feel separate and lonely. Anger, and lose peace of mind. Cling, and live in anxiety. Fantasize, and miss the present. Desire, and suffer until you have it. Heaven and hell are right here, right now. — Naval Ravikant
It is better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. — Lao Tzu
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. — Thomas Hunt Morgan
Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention. — Jaggi Vasudev
Perceived Reality Quotes
The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this moment. The only reality you can possibly know is the world as you see it at this moment. And the only certainty is that those perceived realities are different. There are as many “real worlds” as there are people! — Carl Rogers
We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself. — Farley Mowat
Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events that occurred to have been more predictable before the fact than was actually the case. — Hersh Shefrin
When you are dead, you don't even know that you are dead. It's only pain for others. Same thing when you are stupid.
Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a manner similar to the way the human eye might perceive...
Black and white is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. — Roger Ballen
The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the aesthetic reality within the actual reality. (On photographs by Helen Levitt) — James Agee
Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds. — Steve Young
All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.
The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it. — Carlos Castaneda
It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It's simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality. — Erich Schiffmann
Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life. — Ben Affleck
Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete. — Max Horkheimer
Perception Quotes
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. — William Blake
Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.
So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse. — Carlos Castaneda
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. — Alan Watts
No artist tolerates reality.
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful. — Kailash Satyarthi
I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life. — Immanuel Kant
To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. — Nikola Tesla
Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
Perception Of The World Quotes
Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and there is no objective world out there. Every moment,
your consciousness creates the world that you inhabit. — Eckhart Tolle
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness. — Rodney Dangerfield
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. — Robert Delaunay
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world. — Tina Weymouth
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you. — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
My understanding of the world is all through the prism of martial arts. It’s affected every aspect of my life. — Valentina Shevchenko
The world is full of beauty, you are the greatest proof of this. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. — Mary Browne
The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence. — Erwin Schrodinger
Different Perceptions Quotes
Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be — Creflo A. Dollar
In today’s politics, if you forget that your perception of reality has probably been at least a little manipulated, and your opponents are behaving the way they are based on a perception of reality that’s different from your own — you’re bound to get things wrong. — Tim Urban
The difference between a sickness and a superpower lies in how you see it. — Wim Hof
Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way. — Yasunari Kawabata
Whiteness allows the architectural ideas to be understood most clearly - the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure and surface. These things are more perceptible in a white environment. They have a greater clarity. — Richard Meier
The eyes of the hare are different from those of the owl — Greek Proverbs
I think on YouTube, it's different, and people just haven't realized it: positivity is just as clickbait as negativity. — MrBeast
Focus your awareness on the heart chakra. As you do, you will feel your consciousness shifting. You may feel different perceptions of energy in different parts of your body. — Frederick Lenz
If we took just 5 minutes to recognize each other’s beauty, instead of attacking each other for our differences. — Elliot Page
False Perception Quotes
There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters. — Jim Gaffigan
What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity. — David Hume
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false — Clifford Geertz
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice. — Suzy Kassem
An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false. — Nance O'Neil
When our false perception is corrected, misery ends also. — Adi Shankaracharya
I think there's a perception of me that I'm the dark lord of all that is scary and gory, but that's completely false. I love musicals. My house is very bright and lit. It's not what people would really expect from a Saw director, but I think that's what allows me to do the things that I do. — Darren Lynn Bousman
It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false. — Rene Descartes
The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up. — Frederick Lenz
One of the things that I found when I became better known and found myself in all the newspapers is I stopped having opinions on who people are based on their public perception. Because I have the experience on the other side of what it is like for people to have an opinion about you that isn’t based on reality at all. It has made me aware that I maybe don’t know who people are based on what their Twitter says. — Konstantin Kisin
We view memories as archives of past events — of what has actually happened. But in reality, memories are nothing more than descriptions of what we think happened. — Mo Gawdat
The firmer your grasp on reality, the more power you will have to alter it for your purposes. — 50 Cent
You have to understand the separation between what exists in the print media and what exists in reality. It's important to never lose track of reality. — Jared Kushner
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. — C. S. Lewis
I am free, and always have been; free to accept my own reality, free to trust my perceptions, free to believe what makes me feel sane even if others call me crazy, free to disagree even if it means great loss, free to seek the way home until I find it. — Martha Beck
Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it. — Nathaniel Branden
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. No woman can be well dressed unless she is comfortable in what she is wearing. — Bill Blass
The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and purposes this is purely some kind of lightshow that's being put on in the kind of neurons in our brain. The whole of reality. — Alan Moore
No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are. — Karen Marie Moning
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
Well, I think I'm not a non-believer, and I'm not a believer. But, on the other hand, I couldn't give you a good enough reason why EVP doesn't exist. I don't know enough about it, so how could I say it's not true. Plus, a person's reality is a person's reality so that's your belief system. It's all perception anyway, isn't it. — Michael Keaton
Your perceptions create your reality. — Steve Maraboli
Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is. — Ernie J Zelinski
I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying to render what you see you are not entering into a transformative process. And that's what makes a good painting: the process of transforming and the willingness to leave reality behind. — Susan Rothenberg
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
It's rewarding to be able to change people's perceptions of reality, ... They just see their environment in a different way. They have a kind of different-colored glasses that they can see their world in. To me, that's really cool - when games can change you. — Will Wright
There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context. — Amish Tripathi
Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception. — Daniel Kahneman
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