Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge others by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and dishonor! We show by our judgment just what the light within us is.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.

You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

Is 4 the same 4 for everybody? Are all sevens equal? When the convict ponders the light is it the same light that shines on you?

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Wherever there is a conscious mind, there is a point of view.

People just see what they want to see.

People like things that make sense to them; your perspective is your reality.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

We all look at the same object in different ways.

When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are.

Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.

I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle.

Reality is mind-made.

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

Judgment means that you view the world as you are, rather than as it is.