Paulo Coelho Quotes

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

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.'

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire

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

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

Facts do not constitute truth.

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

Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.