These Perception quotes will inspire you. Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the information or environment presented.
When it comes to how we navigate life, perception is everything. Having a negative outlook often has a ripple effect, affecting our personal and professional lives. Looking at the glass half-full rather than empty will produce more positive results. Below you will find a collection of wise and insightful quotes about perception.
Inspirational Perception Quotes
- “Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.” ~ Irving Berlin
- “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” ~ Robertson Davies
- “Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.” ~ Camille Pissarro
- “Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.” ~ Gary Zukav
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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “‘One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever.'” ~ Robert Holden
- “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ~ Anais Nin
- “There is no truth. There is only perception.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
- “Not every person is going to understand you and that’s okay. They have a right to their opinion and you have every right to ignore it.” ~ Joel Osteen
- “Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.” ~ Chinmayananda Saraswati
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“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “We look at the world through our likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, opinions and judgments. We want everyone to behave as we think they should; otherwise we get agitated. But we are here to accept the world as it is, even as we work to make it better.” ~ Eknath Easwaran
- “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” ~ William Blake
- “People only see what they are prepared to see.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It’s certainty.” ~ Stephen Colbert
- “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ~ Carl Jung
- “If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.” ~ Walter Darby Bannard
- “Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of all Life.” ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
- “People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention.” ~ Keri Hilson
- “Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.” ~ Fred Rogers
- “One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one’s perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.” ~ Tom Robbins
- “Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.” ~ Jim Rohn
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“The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.” ~ Ralph Linton
- “Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
- “We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.” ~ Stephen Covey
- “All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci, Perception quotes knowledge
- “There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” ~ Werner Heisenberg
- “Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.” ~ James Thurber
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“Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.” ~ Mary Browne
- “When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.” ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
- “Perception is real even when it is not reality.” ~ Edward de Bono
- “As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.” ~ François-René de Chateaubriand
- “To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.” ~ Tony Robbins
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“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.” ~ George Eliot
- “The problem is not our situation but our perception of our situation” ~ Graham Cooke
- “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
- “What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” ~ John Lubbock, Perception quotes look for
- “Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.” ~ Colin Powell
- “Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “Your perception of the world around you is not necessarily the same as what is actually occurring.” ~ Peter Ralston
- “It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.” ~ Charles Webster Leadbeater
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“The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to…failure.” ~ John C. Maxwell
- “Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.” ~ Nikola Tesla
- “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.” ~ Anthony de Mello, False Perception quotes
- “Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed– borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.” ~ Rajneesh
- “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.” ~ Edward de Bono
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“Science is nothing but perception.” ~ Plato
- “What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.” ~ Martha Graham
- “What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.” ~ Umberto Eco, Perception quotes humor
- “Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.” ~ Alan Watts
- “We lost because we told ourselves we lost.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
- “The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything.” ~ Terry Goodkind, Perception quotes reality
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“There are no facts, only interpretations.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
- “Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.” ~ Walter Darby Bannard
- “It is the mind that weaves the dream of life, it convinces us that what we see is what is apparent and what is real, and that there’s nothing else outside of our perception.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “Distance lends enchantment to the view.” ~ Mark Twain
- “The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.” ~ Carlos Castaneda
- “Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.” ~ Edward de Bono
