Quotes About Perception

It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you have a crush on someone, your brain overlooks and ignores the flaws of that person causing them to appear perfect.

One can say there are only ?must do? and ?must have? for a so-called real woman. But there are many ?free to do, or not to do? for her either. The most are provided by men who are ready to forgive her almost everything for just one charming smile, which is supposed to be saying ?sorry?.

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think

Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.

Science is nothing but perception.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Listen with both ears and both eyes, Look at others as they speak, you'll learn more.

You can't control what people say about you. Even those who know least about you will want to talk about you and would say a lot of negative opinions that will hurt your reputation. What is important is that you take note of those who are ignorant about you and those who really know you.

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you're thinking about them.

To see what we cannot see we must break through the beliefs that limit our sight.

It's often not what you say, but how you say it that matters most.

Never judge me by the opinion of someone that doesn't really know me.

You must make use of our own mind and perception instead of always believing on what you hear.

Never judge someone by the opinion of others.

The best way to see clearly is to observe the situation.

Never believe everything you hear. Because there are always three sides of a story. Yours, theirs and the truth.

Always listen to what your heart says, as it can see those things that you can't see through your eyes.

To understand others, don't use your own perception. To understand yourself, don't use others' perceptions.