Perceptual Bias Quotes

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

It's easy to keep score at a football game because it's just how many times you get the ball over the goal. But, when you ask an audience to tell us how many times the invisible ball got over the invisible goal, and they go, "Well, it was 46," they're just making it up. So, if you're listening to that, as though you're actually listening to the score of a football game, you're misleading yourself.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.

What you see is not what others see. We inhabit parallel worlds of perception, bounded by our interests and experience. What is obvious to some is invisible to others.

To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

We think we receive all that we perceive, but in fact, we actually give the sky its colour.

Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends.

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense

The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don't buy that because I've seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit's not in there.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.

We still refer to sunrise, sunset. That only has meaning if you think that Earth is in the center of things, and everything is moving around us. So even though we know intellectually Earth goes around the sun, the language is still pre-Copernican, as we would call it.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.

Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.