Perceptual Difference Quotes

Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso and others as rich as Rembrandt; some will be foreshortened and others distant. Recollections are in the eye of the beholder; no two held up side by side will ever quite match.

I could never wrap my head around why the world and the President that Republicans describe bears so little resemblance to the world and the President that I experience. And now I know why. There is a President Obama that only Republicans can see.

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section, but also upon the brain behind the eye of the observer. Each of us looks at a section with the accumulated experience of his past study. Hence the veteran cannot make the novice see with his eyes; so that what carries conviction to the one may make no appeal to the other. This fact does not always seem to be sufficiently recognized by geologists at large.

Hazel frowned. "Why that one?" "You don't see the ghost?" Frank asked. "Ghost?" Nico asked. Okay... if Frank was seeing a ghost that the Underworld kids couldn't see, something was definitely wrong.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music.

I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.

To be quite honest. I have seen a few things in 3D, and it didn't involve me anymore than when I saw something in 2D.

Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

If you could really see that tree over there," Merlin said, "you would be so astounded that you'd fall over." "Really? But why?" asked Arthur. "It's just a tree." "No," Merlin said, "It's just a tree in your mind. To another mind it is an expression of infinite spirit and beauty. In God's mind it is a dear child, sweeter than anything you can imagine.

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs?

I don't really look like people in films; I look like people in paintings.

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

Sometimes, cameras can't capture a scene like your brain does. But the use of apps can help get it just a little closer to reality.

In my head, the sky is blue, the grass is green and cats are orange.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.

They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs.

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.