Analogies Quote by Erwin Schrodinger

Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be;…

— Epictetus

“You might say, "However, since the seeming is also nothing different, it is not the sphere of cognition. [Ultimately,] this is very true indeed.…

— Karl Brunnholzl

Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.

— Frederick Lenz

Everything one sees is merely a projection of what one does not see, its true nature and substance.

— Fernando Sabino

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

— Dalai Lama

All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.

— Immanuel Kant

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

— George Soros

Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human…

— Albert Einstein

There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.

— Dalai Lama

How you see things is how they appear. Think different and you'll see them differently.

— Anonymous

None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are…

— Frederick Lenz