H. G. Bissinger Quotes

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

The blind see what they want to see.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

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

Even moderate confirmation bias can result in reality dysmorphia.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

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.

We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

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

We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.

The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to trurh.

Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.

People see what they want to see when they need to.

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

We do not see the lens through which we look.

For the most part we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see. In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture.

I always look at myself knowing that I will have a certain degree of cognitive distortion.

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

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

Maybe you just saw what you wanted to see. Or maybe you justfelt what you wanted to feel.