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.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. Richard Bach
Do what you know and perception is converted into character. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you. Jon Bon Jovi
The perception of beauty is a moral test. Henry David Thoreau
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. Anais Nin
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghost-like we glide through nature, and should not know our place again. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett
The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception. Gregory Bateson
Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem. David Abram
All perception is colored by emotion. Immanuel Kant
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy. Henry David Thoreau
Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends. Hannibal
Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception. Peter Drucker
Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective. Ryan Holiday