Alexander Pope Quotes

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

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.

Different men often see the same subject in different lights

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.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are - or as we are conditioned to see it.

What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

There are many levels of truth.

Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can't please everyone. Don't even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you're doing.

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

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

All experience is subjective.

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.

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