Joseph Glanvill Quotes

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Perception is not always reality.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.

Everything isn't exactly what it seems from the outside.

I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'

Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

Sometimes when you're at your most certain, that's when everything you know is wrong.