Ken Blanchard Quotes

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

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

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Repetition often becomes fact.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

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

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.

What people believe prevails over the truth.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

People think that they see, but they don't.

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

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.