Quotes About Perception

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions.

In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it's ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

She said, "You may be able to implant an image, even a taste or a smell, but I don't think you can implant the feelings that went with the experience that created the memory.

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

We experience a body experiencing an outer world. But really, the experience of the outer world, as well as the experience of the body, are not happening in two different places.

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

We see the world through our experience.

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience

A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.

The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before.