Perception Quotes

"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." "Tradition is the illusion of permanence." "I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past." "To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you’re in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you nurse one drink), and if you borrow, borrow big." "People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude" "There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see." "Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations." "We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events" "Never trust the words that you read; always trust the reality behind them" "The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. " "I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." "The first step on anyone’s journey to personal growth is to realize how limiting our perceptions are" "Acting like everyone who's been successful is bad and because you're rich you're bad, I don't understand it" "Stories are a way to give meaning to life. Without stories, life would be nothing more than a series of disconnected events" "Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations" "I think a lot of people think they know me, but they don't" "What you aim at determines what you see" "The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages." "Belief creates the actual fact" "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that"