Perception Sayings and Quotes

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.

How we perceive a situation and how we react to it is the basis of our stress. If you focus on the negative in any situation, you can expect high stress levels. However, if you try and see the good in the situation, your stress levels will greatly diminish. Catherine Pulsifer
Your perceptions, because they are different from everyone else's, provide you with the ability to see things like no one else can. Gerry Reiche
Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are - or, as we are conditioned to see it. Stephen Covey
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually destitute, that is exactly what you will be. Robert Collier
The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form. David Hanson
Perception is not always a reflection of the truth, but more about the context of the moment in a small window of time unknown
Our understanding is correlative to our perception. Robert Delaunay
Perception is created and twisted so quickly. Louis C.K.
Always let intuitive perception precede analysis. Darby Bannard
Perception is a guess or estimate of what is 'out there' depending on how we read the clues; therefore it can never be absolute and often is unreliable. Earl Kelley
Knowledge is love and light and vision. Helen Keller
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. George Eliot
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of. Charles H. Perkhurst
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. John Lubbock
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. Epictetus
Perception believed is reality achieved. Andy August
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us. Virginia Satir
Just remember that sometimes the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are. John Green
Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life. Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. Ralph Waldo Emerson
All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions. Leonardo da Vinci
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
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. John C. Maxwell
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Werner Heisenberg
The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything. Terry Goodkind
Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. Stephen Colbert
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it. Umberto Eco
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. Edward de Bono