Quotes about Perception Filtering

Gustave Flaubert

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

Peter Morgan

Truth is an illusory notion.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.

Chuck Palahniuk

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

Stephen Hawking

There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world.

Alan Greenspan

I can’t be in charge of people’s perceptions.

When President Clinton left office, there was a huge fiscal surplus that Rubin had engineered, & President George W. Bush advocated a tax cut for the wealthy. Greenspan, who was very influential, did not oppose the tax cuts. He did urge that the tax cut be very carefully crafted so that the tax cuts would only be effective if the surplus continued. Rubin urged him not to take such a nuanced position as it would be perceived as support for the Bush tax cut which would not have the safety valves Greenspan advocated. Greenspan did not take Rubin’s advice. The tax cuts passed the Republican Congress with no safety valves with Greenspan’s statements being interpreted as support for the Bush plan just as Rubin had warned. The Bush Administration & the Republican Congress then increased spending enormously in almost all areas. With no safety valves rescinding the disastrous tax cuts, the surplus evaporated & became the largest deficit in history.

Alison Jackson

I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.

Tim O'Brien

The world comes at me that way - comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you'd forget swatting a mosquito.

T. E. Hulme

Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

Perception Filtering Quotes