Quotes About Perception

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination.

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams.

The sick are victims of their own imagination.

Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

I am really the victim of other people's imagination.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Of course! The path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it.

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Memory belongs to the imagination.

Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that serve as doorways to the creative imagination. No one is excluded.

Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?