Perception Quotes

"There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see." "Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations." "We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events" "Never trust the words that you read; always trust the reality behind them" "The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. " "I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." "I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past." "What you aim at determines what you see" "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that" "The first step on anyone’s journey to personal growth is to realize how limiting our perceptions are" "I think a lot of people think they know me, but they don't" "Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations" "Stories are a way to give meaning to life. Without stories, life would be nothing more than a series of disconnected events" "Acting like everyone who's been successful is bad and because you're rich you're bad, I don't understand it" "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it."