When it comes to how we navigate life, perception is everything. Having a negative outlook can often cause a ripple effect, infecting our personal and professional lives. Viewing the glass as half full rather than empty will yield more positive results. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and insightful quotes about perception.
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
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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.Aldous Huxley
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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
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.William Blake
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No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is -- in other words, not a thing, but a think.Penelope Fitzgerald
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We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are.Anais Nin
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Perception is merely reality filtered through the prism of your soul.Christopher A. Ray
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We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.Marianne Williamson
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Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.Claudia Black
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What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.C.S. Lewis
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.Robertson Davies
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Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.Samuel Beckett
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People only see what they are prepared to see.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.William Shakespeare
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The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.Robert Delaunay
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Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view.Obi-Wan Kenobi
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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.Miyamoto Musashi
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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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Heightened perception is the goal: becoming more aware of how you see, not just what you see.Michael Kimmelman
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Perception is demonstrably an active rather than a passive process; it constructs rather than records 'reality'.Michael Michalko
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.Camille Pissarro
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Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large.George Carlin
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.William Blake
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.Carl Jung
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It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.C.W. Leadbeater
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.Henry David Thoreau
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All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.Friedrich Nietzsche
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You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality.Steve Maraboli
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It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.Michael Ondaatje