Cognitive Filter Quotes

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

We think we receive all that we perceive, but in fact, we actually give the sky its colour.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

Everybody's got a worldview, whether they know they have it or they don't. They might even get it when they are little tiny kids. Suppose they get it when they are in college, which is often the case, or in high school, whatever. Everything they learn after that or every thing they see after that, they fit it into that worldview. And they are making coherence of what's good, what's bad, what will work, what won't work, what's noble, what's ignoble, and so on... all through this filter.

The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.

We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.

You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.