Perception Bias Quotes

The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

The past always looks better than it was. It’s only pleasant because it isn’t here.

Israeli murderers are called "commandos," Arab commandos are called "terrorists."

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

To pretend that there is no such thing as the Muslim world is specious, self-deluding, and - frankly - plain silly.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

For the Americans, it is not attractive to hear what the similarities are between them and the Iranian people. It is attractive to hear how different the Iranians are.

I was told that television will be very difficult. But I think everyone just hypes it.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

I know I can play, but people who haven't seen me and look at me on a football pitch think, 'He's tall, and he's there to head the ball.'

Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

Anger is a handy term and words are tricky, as we know. What one man perceives as anger, another person - in my case the deliverer of material - is, "Don't you see it, don't you see how badly you're doing?" It's like shaking a child - which you're not supposed to do.

Public opinion is no more than this. What people think that other people think.

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.

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

Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

People would say that I looked good on screen but they could not cast me as I was bit overweight. It was never an issue in Malayalam films. Now, that I have lost some weight, they ask me if there is something wrong with me? It is just a matter of perception.

When a man hears himself somewhat misrepresented, it provokes him—at least, I find it so with myself; but when misrepresentation becomes very gross and palpable, it is more apt to amuse him.