Fear Quote by Elizabeth Thornton

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

— Alva Noe

“The mechanisms that form our perceptions operate almost entirely below the level of conscious awareness; ironically, we cannot sense how we sense. (...) Because…

— Kathryn Schulz

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

— Carl Sagan

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

— Stefano Gabbana

Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

— Deepak Chopra

Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see.

— Peter Senge

“We interpret everything we experience through mental maps. We seldom question their accuracy; we're usually even unaware that we have them. We simply assume…

— Stephen Covey

The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

— Robert Breault

Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made…

— Frederick Lenz

“Our feelings, thoughts, beliefs and even expectations act as filters through which our imaginations initiate the process of generating our particular experienced reality. These…

— Sol Luckman

Through our perceptual systems, we represent our surroundings, aiming to do so accurately, where the aiming is functional or teleological, rather than intentional. And…

— Ernest Sosa