Misperception Quotes

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

We are perceived as a nation at war with Muslims. This debilitating and dangerous perception must be reversed.

When life gives you lemons....they could really be oranges.

People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!

With colleagues in the work environment, we fail to see the source of their envy or the reason for their manipulations; our attempts at influencing them are based on the assumptions that they want the same things as ourselves.

Appearances are often deceiving.

A lot of preconceived notions that I had about fame and status and money and joy and pain, and all of these things that I thought I knew, I didn't.

Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.

Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden.

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.

For people at the bottom who are really doing badly — those in the bottom 10th or 15th percentile — they think their work falls in the 60th or 55th percentile, so, above average. People at the bottom still think they're outperforming other people.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

I could never wrap my head around why the world and the President that Republicans describe bears so little resemblance to the world and the President that I experience. And now I know why. There is a President Obama that only Republicans can see.

The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.