Perception Quotes

Don’t call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.

A businessman is aggressive; a businesswoman is pushy. A businessman is good on details; she’s picky. He loses his temper at times because he’s so involved in his work; she’s bitchy. He knows how to follow through; she doesn’t know when to quit. He stands firm; she’s hard. He is a man of the world; […]

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

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

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. The world in which a man lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he looks at it.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

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

A perception cannot be “wrong” – your senses are just doing their job. If you genuinely saw pigs fly, it doesn’t matter whether the pigs were actually caught in a whirlwind, or you were watching an animated cartoon, or you were asleep and dreaming. Your perception was true. On the other hand, if you preach […]

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.