Perception vs. Reality, Perception vs Reality Quotes

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

I don't see the point of Twitter, so I write a lot of stuff to mess with people. But because I used to do dumb things on the court, people think I'm dumb in regular life. But once people meet me, they feel dumb themselves.

I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But that's only because people only see that side of me when I'm at work, in front of the camera. So they don't see Miranda at home; they don't see behind the scenes. They see the glamour of it all but they don't see Miranda standing barefoot in a dirty old house.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

People have perceived dangers and real dangers, but to politicians, it's all the same.

You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.

Be that as it may, there is fixed in my mind a certain opinion of long standing, namely that there exists a God who is able to do anything and by whom I, such as I am, have been created. How do I know that he did not bring it about that there is no earth at all, no heavens, no extended thing, no shape, no size, no place, and yet bringing it about that all these things appear to me to exist precisely as they do now?

Economists are evaluated on how intelligent they sound, not on a scientific measure of their knowledge of reality

Not as she is, but as she fills his dream

It's easy to keep score at a football game because it's just how many times you get the ball over the goal. But, when you ask an audience to tell us how many times the invisible ball got over the invisible goal, and they go, "Well, it was 46," they're just making it up. So, if you're listening to that, as though you're actually listening to the score of a football game, you're misleading yourself.

It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd.

Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same.

In reality most people aren't as perfect as they want to seem.

In Maryland, I didn't grow up around poor white people. Where I grew up, the white people were middle class or upper-middle class. It's interesting how screwed up it is in reality, because most people who receive assistance from the government are white, but not in my head or in my experience.

We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

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