Peter Drucker Quotes

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.

To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

We often do not see what we do not expect to see.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.

How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and would rarely look beyond the thinnest of facades. Or they would ignore reality, dismissing it as the facade. And then, when their whole world fell to pieces...they would tear their topknots or rend their clothes and bewail their karma, blaming gods or kami or luck or their lords or husbands or vassals-anything or anyone-but never themselves.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

I know all too well that people only see what they want to see and remember only what they want to remember.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa.

We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe

People see what they want to see when they need to.

A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.

We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. The moment we want to disbelieve anything we have previously believed we suddenly discover not only that there is a mass of evidence against it but that this evidence was starting us in the face all the time.

Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought

Partisanship shapes the reality that people choose to see.

To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.

Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.

People only see what they are prepared to see.