Reality vs. Perception, Reality vs Perception Quotes

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention color is color. But in reality there are atoms and the void. That is, the objects of sense are supposed to be real and it is customary to regard them as such, but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

What I'm saying is that government doesn't work for people. There is a perception of it and a reality of it.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.

We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.

Nothing is as it seems; everything is as you allow it to be

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

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. People love the president because he's certain of his choices as a leader, even if the facts that back him up don't seem to exist. It's the fact that he's certain that is very appealing to a certain section of the country. I really feel a dichotomy in the American populace. What is important? What you want to be true, or what is true?

I'm always fascinated by the disjunct between what's really happening on the ground and the propaganda machine that feeds America alarmist news about immigration.

I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good things can happen.

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

There's so much stuff going on behind the cameras. Sometimes people think these things are done certain ways and when you watch that you see how hard and down and dirty it was.

Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

You'd think when you saw my old MTV stuff that I was always drunk and high and all that stuff. I wasn't.

He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

The problems of the country look very different from the Oval Office than they do from the campaign trail.

There's the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there's the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn't sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.