Quotes about perception

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

— A Course In Miracles

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

— Henri L. Bergson

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.

— William Blake

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it creative observation. Creative viewing.

— William S. Burroughs

You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.

— M. Shawn Cole

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.

— Confucius

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is --in other words, not a thing, but a think.

— Penelope Fitzgerald

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

— Hans Margolius

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

— Al Neuharth

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

— Charles Peguy

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

— Charles H. Perkhurst

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

— Agnes Repplier

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

There's a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen

— Ty Webb