Perception Quotes

nothing is ever behind or in front of you, it's just the fact you're looking the wrong way

Language itself conditions, limits, and predetermines what we see. Language doesn't record reality: it shapes and creates it, so that the whole of our universe is textual.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

I never read, I just look at pictures.

It's a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Reality is purely a perception of the individual mind. It follows, that since no two minds are alike, no two perceptions of reality are alike. It further follows, that what is reality to one, may seem like complete madness to someone else.

You come to realise there is this huge disparity between what you think about yourself and your work and what other people think about you and your work, at first you either think they're insane or that it's a conspiracy to make you look stupid. Or maybe, just maybe, they're right, and you're sometimes quite good at what you do.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Think not that every desert is empty.
Possibly it may contain a sleeping tiger.

We want our minds to be clear - not so we can think clearly, but so we can be open in our perceptions.

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

We are taught a set of skills important for our growth and survival as people: communication, arithmetic, wellness, and others. But no one teaches us how to perceive the world. To delight someone is to give a small lesson in how to see the world as something good.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation…The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.

This great world, which some multiply further as being only a species under one genus, is the mirror in which we must look at ourselves to recognise ourselves from the proper angle.

Things that are perceived as real are real in their consequences.

One eye sees. The other feels.

A brand is a collective perception in the minds of consumers.

Without content there is no form and without form there is no content. A work of art is realized when form and content are indistinguishable.