Quotes about Perception

everyone is living in their own self-created illusion

As the poet William Blake so eloquently stated: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

Your thoughts and beliefs dictate your reality, so if you want to change your reality, you have to change your beliefs. The

When it comes to money, who and what you surround yourself with has a huge effect on how you perceive it and feel about it.

Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?

I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.

Instead of measuring my success and value by my own standards, I was measuring it by how others perceived me.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Living among clowns and misanthropists, she probably cannot appreciate a better class of people when she meets them.

Perceiving myself in a blunder, I attempted to correct it. I might have seen there was too great a disparity between the ages of the parties to make it likely that they were man and wife. One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the solace of our declining years. The other did not look seventeen.

Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes-- Don't get the expression of a vicious cur that appears to know the kicks it gets are its desert, and yet, hates all the world, as well as the kicker, for what it suffers.