Perceptions Of Reality Quotes

“Once we recognize the fact that every individual is a treasury of hidden and unsuspected qualities, our lives become richer, our judgment better, and our world is more right. It is not love that is blind, it is only the unnoticed eye that cannot see the real qualities of people.”
― Charles H. Percy

“Human’s aren’t concerned with reality, merely their perceptions of it.”
― Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas

“What you see is not what wee se. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.”
― Don DeLillo, Falling Man

“Gifted people of discernment, intelligence, and talent flourish in virtually every occupation. Every field produces perceptive and prescient persons whom exhibit the rare capacity to observe what eludes most people.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Sense of beauty, perception, and the mathematical universe are all part of the same texture.”
― Neeti Sinha, Physical Laws of the Mathematical Universe: Who Are We?

“What a woman is feeling is much more important than what you know... Every time that you interrupt a patient, you are preventing her from speaking her truth, and you make her doubt herself.”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le Chœur des femmes

“Or l’espace est une réalité qui dure : nos impressions se chassent l’une l’autre, rien ne demeure dans notre esprit, et l’on ne comprendrait pas que nous puissions ressaisir le passé s’il ne se conservait pas en effet dans le milieu matériel qui nous entoure. // Now space is a reality that endures: since our impressions rush by, one after another, and leave nothing behind in the mind, we can understand how we recapture the past only by understanding how it is, in effect, preserved by our physical surroundings.”
― Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory

“A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better.”
― Gregory Maguire, After Alice

“I have not quite come to terms with the brevity that people crave as they dash through life, flitting from one thing to another. ~ “Vindication Across Time”
― Mala Naidoo, Vindication Across Time

“I always feel that other people's lives are filled with meaning. You look at them on the street and think how real their lives must be. Of course, you also know that isn't true.”
― Edward Gorey, Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

“Things change, perceptions change, realities change, and yet you know all those changes do not reflect the real reality of humankind, but rather our perceptions of reality. The majority of human beings are products of their environments. A rare few are the creators of their environments, and even rarer are those who create new environments.”
― Rajinder Jhol, Shine