Jon Stewart Quotes

In an ideological, polarized political environment, people see the reality that they want to see.

The perception in the Arab world now is that we are having secularists against Islamists, and that's it. So the secularists are progressive; the Islamists are reactionary, conservative. This perception is wrong.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

Republicans, say Democrats, are too simplistic about what ails America, and their solutions are straight out of 'J.A.G.'

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

We know that reality was a well known liberal bias.

Partisanship shapes the reality that people choose to see.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn’t need the Mist to warp their perceptions.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

The world is my representation

To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.

You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you.

Judgment means that you view the world as you are, rather than as it is.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

I lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People see the log and call it a twig. They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop.