Will Smith Quotes

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

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

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.

We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created.

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

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

No matter what happens to us in life, we tend to think of it as 'good' or 'bad.' And most of us tend to use the 'bad' label three to 10 times as often as the 'good' label. And when we say something is bad, the odds grow overwhelming that we will experience it as such.

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

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

I'm not interested in observed reality.

I don't want to become a serious, annoying sociologist. I try to regard sociology as a part of everyday life.

Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?

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.

...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.

I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize the world outside of you into these stories to help you understand it.

This world is not the same to all people. Each one lives in his little domain....Peace and harmony may reign in one person's world; where strife and restlessness in anothers. But whatever the circumstances of one's environment, it consists of both an inner and an outer world. The outside world is the one in which your life engages in action and interaction. The world inside of you determines your happiness or unhappiness.

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

Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

Opinions can't be inaccurate.

I find people confusing.