Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

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.

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

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

All experience is subjective.

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.

Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.

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

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

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

It's easier to be skeptical because it's easier to understand that every human lives in their own world.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

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

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.

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.

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

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

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

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

Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To me, it seems self-evident that everyone lives in the real world - we all breathe real oxygen, eat real food, the earth under our feet feels equally solid to all of us. But clearly these people have a far more tightly circumscribed definition of reality, one that I find deeply mysterious, and an almost pathologically intense need to bring others into line with that definition.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.

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