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Perception Quotes
36 FAMOUS QUOTES · PERCEPTION
Perception Quotes
Read 36 famous perception quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are."Yorgos Lanthimos
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."
Harper Lee
"There is no truth. There is only perception."
Gustave Flaubert
"What people believe prevails over the truth."
Sophocles
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."Henry David Thoreau
"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us."Rabindranath Tagore
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."William Shakespeare
“My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.”Satchel Paige
“Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”Rumi
“Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.”Nikola Tesla
“Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, because it belongs to everybody to see you, to few to come in touch with you.”Niccolò Machiavelli
“A large part of my career is due to perception, what people think I am or should be.”Michael Beasley
“I know what people think I am. People think I'm dumb. People think I party all the time. People think I'm ignorant.”Michael Beasley
“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”Leonardo da Vinci
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
Confucius
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Edgar Degas
“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”Rabindranath Tagore
“Fears make devils of cherubins; they never see truly.”William Shakespeare
“To him who is in fear everything rustles.”
Sophocles
“Fear has many eyes, and can see things underground.”
Miguel de Cervantes
“If one says "Red" and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds.”
Josef Albers
“Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind.”
Walter Landor
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
“In visual perception a colour is almost never seen as it really is.”
Josef Albers