Top 161 Perception Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Perception Quotes from famous people such as Henry David Thoreau, Will Wright, Tristan Harris, Evan Spiegel, Matthew Hussey, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau
Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.
Will Wright
Magicians start by looking for blind spots, edges, vulnerabilities and limits of people’s perception, so they can influence what people do without them even realizing it. Once you know how to push people’s buttons, you can play them like a piano.
Tristan Harris
Snapchat changed that perception of deleting something as bad. Online, typically you delete something if it’s bad or if it’s really embarrassing.
Evan Spiegel
If you label someone lazy or a liar, he’ll feel like that for life. Worse, guys lose motivation to change when we feel like your perception of us is set in stone.
Matthew Hussey
Looks is a matter of perception. At Cannes, Europeans think I am good looking, while in India, I am not.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Costume, hair and makeup can tell you instantly, or at least give you a larger perception of who a character is. It’s the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth, so it really does establish who they are.
Colleen Atwood
I like to use light as a material, but my medium is actually perception. I want you to sense yourself sensing – to see yourself seeing.
James Turrell
My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that’s my perception of life.
Abbas Kiarostami
I’m not interested in trying to work on people’s perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don’t take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.
Jim Brown
The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
Walter Benjamin
I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That’s not my family’s fault; it was my perception.
Willie Aames
Extras changed the public’s perception of me hugely – they saw there was more to me than just this bloke off the telly.
Les Dennis
The perception of the horizon is an earthbound event; all horizons disappear in space, and we are left shorn of the sweet roots that have held us to the earth, challenged to imagine what is truly present just before us, a unified and seemingly limitless universe.
Eugene Kennedy
I’ve been a Christian for a long time, and I think that Christianity gets a bad rap. I think that people’s perception of what a Christian is today is something that is close-minded and narrow, and that’s not what I am.
Andie MacDowell
Reality doesn’t bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
Comprehension follows perception.
Philip K. Dick
Modern morality is all about perception.
Rachel Cusk
When we shift our perception, our experience changes.
Lindsay Wagner
In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
Samuel Alexander
I have a tremendous support from a lot of the Underground fans. They believe in me, they want to see me do well, and they’re behind me. But there are a lot of people out there who don’t believe it, and so I want to separate perception and reality. I want to be able to do that.
Eddie Alvarez
The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.
Olivia Williams
In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
Chuck Close
Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.
Eddie Trunk
To put it bluntly, I feel relevant and valuable, and I am struggling to understand why, when women reach age 65, they encounter an invisible barrier of perception that says it’s time to walk away. Shouldn’t we have a choice in the matter? Shouldn’t our experience and energy be worth more?
Bonnie Hammer
I’m less interested in reality. I’m more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think the media and the Internet and all that stuff, has created this perception of black women as these mammy types, kind of angry, you know, full of pent up emotions and resentments. And that these women are people to feared rather than loved.
Bill Duke
With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they’re going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing – in perception – have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.
Oliver Sacks
You’re guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality, that’s the way that it is in this world.
Chris Webber
Everyone who means well gives advice based on his or her perception. I have realized that while it’s important to hear the suggestions, one should only listen to oneself.
Emraan Hashmi
You can accept that perception of yourself that you’re getting too old to be interesting or buyable. Or you can kind of do what you do and see what happens.
Patty Griffin
The perception of identity is so intimately bound up wi

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.
David Hanson
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
Alexis Carrel
My original perception of wrestling was not a very positive one. I didn’t understand it at all, and I thought it was kind of silly and ridiculous. But as I got to know it, it was sort of like how people used to talk about musicals, to me, when I was younger.
Betty Gilpin
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone.
Martina Navratilova
Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception, cognition, and, over time, our emotions.
Maryanne Wolf
There’s nothing less sexy than a girl falling over on stage. I have fallen once, but it had nothing to do with my shoes. I’m legally blind, so I fell over a monitor because the stage was black, and I had no depth perception. Mortifying.
Grace Potter
Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you’re there, all you need is the expertise and the information.
Samuel Dash
Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
Noam Chomsky
Some of what I get, I deserve; I do some dumb stuff sometimes. But I do not deserve the perception that I have.
DeMarcus Cousins
I’ve never personally criticized anyone else’s music, but I know that the public’s real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.
Kenny G
I think ‘In The Heat Of The Night’ was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it’s actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.
Taylor Sheridan
The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.
Johannes P. Muller
It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that’s not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.
Stephen Colbert
What you see is not what others see. We inhabit parallel worlds of perception, bounded by our interests and experience. What is obvious to some is invisible to others.
George Monbiot
Straight edge is everything about a personal decision to not live my life under the influence or not being aware. I pretty much don’t like anything that alters my view of reality or my perception or my grasp.
CM Punk
I think the future of this planet depends on humans, not technology, and we already have the knowledge – we’re kind of at the endgame with knowledge. But we’re nowhere near the endgame when it comes to our perception. We still have one foot in the dark ages.
Graham Hawkes
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
Edward de Bono
People think I can’t go shopping – that’s their perception of how famous I am.
Kano
Being shocking and cruel is a commerce. It’s an actual valued skill now. The thing that really annoys me, the perception of it is that it takes intelligence, and it doesn’t.
Bobcat Goldthwait
What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It’s enough for me.
Oleg Cassini
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.
Alan Moore
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
Edward de Bono
Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don’t have immediate access to from what they get through the media.
Anthony Fauci