It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. – Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – William Shakespeare
The eyes only see what the mind is prepared to comprehend. – Henri Bergson
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. – Ansel Adams
Perception believed is reality achieved. – Andy August
Perceptions about people can be powerful. They can also be powerfully wrong. – Craig Dresang
Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large. – George Carlin
Preconceived notions are like dark sunglasses worn indoors. You see just enough to detect big shapes, and not enough to discern crucial details. – Alan Robert Neal
The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust
How we perceive a situation and how we react to it is the basis of our stress. If you focus on the negative in any situation, you can expect high stress levels. However, if you try and see the good in the situation, your stress levels will greatly diminish. – Catherine Pulsifer
If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. – J. Robert Oppenheimer
Your intentions don’t matter. Perception is reality. If people perceive you the wrong way, it doesn’t matter what your intentions are.
We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are. – Anais Nin
People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth. – Roberto Bolano
Perception is merely reality filtered through the prism of your soul. – Christopher A. Ray
It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you’re not. – Michael Ondaatje
Things are never so bad they can’t be made worse. – Humphrey Bogart
The dung beetle, seeing its child on the wall, thinks it sees a pearl on a thread. – Arabic Proverb
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 meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. – George Eliot
All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions. – Leonardo Da Vinci
Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it. – Stephen Covey
The universe is change; life is your perception of it. – Marcus Aurelius
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. – Miyamoto Musashi
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of. – Charles H. Perkhurst
Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not.
It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be. – T.S. Eliot
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. – Aldous Huxley
We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world. – Stephen R. Covey
Your agreement with reality defines your life. – Steve Maraboli
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. – John Lubbock
Don’t discount yourself, no matter what you’re doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world. – Mark Zuckerberg
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right. – Marianne Williamson
Perception is a guess or estimate of what is ‘out there’ depending on how we read the clues; therefore it can never be absolute and often is unreliable. – Earl Kelley
Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you. – Jon Bon Jovi
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. – Epictetus
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. – C.S. Lewis
The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form. – David Hanson
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. – Ansel Adams
All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not say,it is morning, and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. – Rabindranath Tagore
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective. – Al Neuharth
If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me. – Angelina Jolie
No perspective, no perception. New perspective, new perception. – Toba Beta
We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us. – Virginia Satir
People only see what they are prepared to see. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. – C. W. Leadbeater
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