False Perceptions Quotes

People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.

People are constantly trying to make an image for you. They'll dress you up and tell you to pose a certain way and take all these pictures... they want a certain image, so they create that. And unless you're spending a lot of time to create another image to counteract that image, theirs will win. So right now, I'm kind of dealing with a lot of false ideas of what I'm about.

and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.

People think being famous is fun. It's not. Even a little bit of fame. It's bizarre. It's weird.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notions of us… We play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us.

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all

It's almost like schizophrenia the way I get ideas about things that are not really happening and just end up focusing on them.

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, 'Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?'

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation.

When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.

Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

False perceptions are being created about me without an iota of proof.

You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.

Anyone who thinks my life is cupcakes is all wrong.