Walter Lippmann Quotes

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.

All experience is subjective.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.

People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.

You can't be conscious unless you have variable receptors... When people say the way I see the world is the way it is - that's ridiculous. We can only see it depending on the quality of our receptors and background.

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.

What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.

What people are perceiving will dictate what their life and ultimately what your interaction is.

Perception is reality.

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.