You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

Music, this complex and mysterious act, precise as algebra and vague as a dream, this art made out of mathematics and air, is simply the result of the strange properties of a little membrane. If...

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

Or was it, as everyone told her, and as she must believe, all in her head? And so what if it was – wasn’t everything in her head real too? What if there was no...

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don’t you?

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Our perceptions shape whether challenges are obstacles that block our path to success or important arrows that steer us in the direction we want to go.

Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her position. From theirs, it might be a line between mercy and cruelty, consideration and callousness.

We are all so happy. If we only could realize it.

Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment...

The perception in the marketplace has a tremendous impact.

Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally – oh, very rarely! – the cogs fit; the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses...

Happiness is the result of our perception. If we focus on lack we will never find contentment. If we focus on what we have in joyful appreciation, suddenly the world becomes our footstool.

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

To analyze or assess a person’s failings or deficiencies,’ he declared to himself, ‘is useless, not because such blemishes are immovable, but because they affect the mass of beholders in diverse ways. Different minds perceive...

One who has lived through the days of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and the Japanese war lords feels something that a younger generation does not concerning the aberrations that are possible in this world.

My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.

A hundred francs! Oh, dear me! It is worth millions of francs, my child. But my — dealer — here tells me that in fact a picture is worth only what someone will give for...

The intellect seeks to throw its own interpretation of the real over reality, and in so doing carves the world up into artificial little cubes.

Show a man too many camels’ bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.

Happiness comes from action, not from reaction. It is a feeling, not the success, but the perception.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

The glass is neither half empty, nor half full. The glass is just a glass and it’s content can perpetually change with your perception.

Even if things were the same, people’s perception of them might have been very different back then. The darkness of night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and...

[C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50)

Why does truth carry such a dreadful face? Why does subjugation carry such a happy mask? It becomes sad when people understand that they can lead a better life as long as they bow their...

We stood as the ground shifted and we saw the view from belowthrough tiled floors and concrete stairs, our feet burning holes in the foundation while you whispered of dreams.

It’s more of the same, with the perception that carry trades are being unwound, and that Japanese bond yields rose further today probably added to that trend.

Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns...

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

Not because we think that it’s still about to happen, thus makes our future life as though yet to be exist.Human mind can’t yet perceive the nature of future.

What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet...

Eyes that are blind have no way to tell the loveliness of faces and features; eyes with no pupils have no way to tell the beauty of colored and embroidered silks.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as others see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us,An’ foolish notion.

An individual’s perception is their reality colored in the shades they desire–not necessarily the color that it is.

You can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours.

If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist in the world around you, at least not in the...

Nonconformists aren’t just going against the grain; they’re going against the brain. Either their brains aren’t taking the easy way out to begin with, or in standing apart from their peers, these students are standing...

A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it.

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.

Since the perception is that the market’s going to rally tomorrow, why not buy today.

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.

What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it’s to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

…the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.

The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself, because the self is the product and a part of the total process of human existence. To transform oneself, self-knowledge is essential;...

Everything is interconnected. My readings of classical authors, who never speaks of sunsets, have made many sunsets intelligible to me, in all their colors. There is a relationship between syntactical competence, by which we distinguish...