Relative Perception Quotes

No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.

Common sense to one person might be something different to another.

The moon is brighter since the barn burned.

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red is relative to sight, but the fact that this or that is in that relation to vision that we call being red is not itself relative to sight; it is a real fact.

What you see from here is not what you see from there.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.

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

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig.

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.

I confess, I do not believe in time.

Harshness and unkindness are relative. The appearance of them may be the fruits of the greatest kindness.

Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.

Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat

Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.

Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it depends on the way that you see.

I feel as though maybe our concept of time and space is very limited. Maybe everything is all happening at once, if you know what I mean.

Whether something is sensible or not is subjective. What is sensible to me might not be for others.

We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.

A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.

Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.