Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.” — Wally Lamb We Are Water Copy Share Image
It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament. — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is. — James Robertson Copy Share Image
People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African American. They're not us. They're impostors, — Torii Hunter Copy Share Image
It is widely believed that no one can love you in the same degree as your mother and there is this general… — Raj Kundra Copy Share Image
Nudity doesn't scare me at all; the only thing about it is the perception by the audience. — Amanda Seyfried Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a society, we have this perception that women are emotional. The research, however, tells us that, on trading floors, that poor… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think that there are a lot of reasons to be insecure as an actress... But I don’t really have a perception… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Going into live action, the perception I had was that to be a director, you had to be loud, you had be… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt… — Rick Allen Copy Share Image
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I'm not really worried about people's perception of what I do, or people's analysis of why I make the decisions I make.… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
People are going to think what they want to think. I let them. You can’t control perception. It’s a losing game so… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
“The perception of other people and the intersubjective world is problematic only for adults. The child lives in a world which he… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The purpose of formulating [a] conflict as a game is not that of resolving the conflict by 'solving the game.' It is… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true.… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
The 2014 election has given the GOP the rare opportunity to retroactively redeem its brand. The conventional perception, incessantly repeated by Democrats… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My point in mentioning this is only to say that people who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others. — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
The reality of it, excuse me, is when you're in the public they already have a perception of you, ... And that… — Joe Namath Copy Share Image
Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Some wonderful teachers see the best in you and easily get irritated when you get it wrong because they believe you can… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
When you hang the 'bipartisan' tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there's a broad agreement… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
Fans have this perception that they can say anything to you because you are a celebrity. — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are people who want awards because it changes the perception of the audience. But I'm not into all that. — Salman Khan Copy Share Image
The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care. — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either. — James J. Gibson Copy Share Image
“But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image