Edward de Bono Quotes

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.

What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body.

Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.

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.

It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

Perception's not reality.

People want to see the world the way they want to see it, not the way it is.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Perception and reality are two different things.