Rick Riordan Quotes

Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

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

Reason is the illusion of reality

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

Reality is a question of perspective.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

We live in condensations of our imagination

Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.

Perception is reality.

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

The problem is that perception is reality.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

What a people believes, even if untrue, has the same influence over their lives as if it were true.

If people believe something is true, then it is even if it isn't.

Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

Even moderate confirmation bias can result in reality dysmorphia.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?