George Soros Quotes

Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.

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

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

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.

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.

Perception is reality.

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

Reality: What a concept!

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

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

You know, sometimes there's a difference between what is actually the truth and what you perceive to be the truth through your social conditioning.

Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).

Reason is the illusion of reality

Perception and reality are two different things.

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

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

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

I'm interested in such things as the difference between how we perceive the world and what the world turns out to be. The difference is between the stories we tell others and the stories we tell ourselves. There is a wonderful Russian saying, which I use as the epigraph of one of my novels, which goes, He lies like an eyewitness. Which is very sly, clever and true.

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.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe