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What we perceive is not always what is there, because we perceive not
with our eyes but with our minds. Perception is an interpretation of
reality. It is our truth, but it is not the ultimate truth. Change how you
perceive and you will be able to create in entirely new realms.
See also
attention, children, dreaming, illumination, imagination*, judgement,
knowledge, mind, people, seeing*, thinking, truth, vision
Quotes
‘When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly
are, infinite.’
—William Blake
‘If general perception changes from seeing the glass as ‘half-full’ to seeing
it as ‘half empty’ there are major innovative
opportunities.’
— Peter F. Drucker
‘World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts.
But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.’
— Stephen Jay Gould
‘What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of
questioning.’
— Werner Heisenberg
‘Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an
unhabitual way.’
— William James
‘We ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we
entitle "nature". We could never find them in appearances had we not ourselves,
by the nature of our own mind, originally set them there.’
— Immanuel Kant
‘Things which we see are not by themselves what we see … It remains
completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from
the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving
them.’
— Immanuel Kant
‘Perception is a prediction, not a truth.’
— Ross Mooney
‘Every man takes the limits of his field of vision for the limits of the
world.’
— Arthur Schopenhauer
‘The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him,
in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.’
— Igor Stravinsky
‘The universe is wider than our views of it.’
— Henry David Thoreau
‘Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in
awareness.’
— James Thurber
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