George Eliot Quotes

But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn’t need the Mist to warp their perceptions.

Our capacity for belief is so plastic, we can convince ourselves of anything. Believing is seeing.

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

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

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to deny the world around us; to refabricate it in our own image; to reinvent it for our own benefit. And so, it becomes something of a challenge, a task, to recover (or at least attempt to recover) the real world despite all the impediments to that end.

Perception and reality are two different things.

The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as what you thought you saw. Hence the best photography is aware, mindful, of illusion and uses illusion, permitting and encouraging it - especially unconscious and powerful illusions that are not usually admitted on the scene.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

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

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

If you stare long enough at anything, you will start to find similarities. The word “coincidence” exists in order to stop people from seeing meaning where none exists.

The blind see what they want to see.

Amazing what people make up based on what they choose to see.

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

Oftentimes what you see cancels out what you perceive.