Tom Cruise Quotes

Perception is not always reality.

I understand the difference between perception and reality.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

Perception of a state is not the state.

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Perception's not reality.

Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

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

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

What people believe prevails over the truth.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

People think that they see, but they don't.

I'm interested in such things as the difference between how we perceive the world and what the world turns out to be. The difference is between the stories we tell others and the stories we tell ourselves. There is a wonderful Russian saying, which I use as the epigraph of one of my novels, which goes, He lies like an eyewitness. Which is very sly, clever and true.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

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.

Perception is real even when it is not reality.

Perception is reality.

What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.