Perception is the spectacles through which we see the world

• Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world. Debbie Ford
• You don’t need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have. Marianne Williamson
• The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth. Craig Groeschel
• There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values. David Myers
• 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. Stephen Covey
• Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision. Rick Bayan
• 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. Stephen Covey
• Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see. Marianne Williamson
• Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them. John Locke
• I’ve been through some very dark times in my life and I’ve been through those very dark times that’s affected my world view, the lens that I see people through, so I can relate to that. Rainn Wilson
• Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase. Salman Rushdie
• It’s rewarding to be able to change people’s perceptions of reality, … They just see their environment in a different way. They have a kind of different-colored glasses that they can see their world in. Will Wright
• [It’s] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time. Shawn Achor
• The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies “out there” in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition. Stephen Jay Gould

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We perceive through the filter of our beliefs, memories and thoughts

• Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking. Patrick Ness
• We can only see what our brain’s filter allows through. Eben Alexander
• Your thoughts create filters through which you view your life. David Emerald Womeldorff
• What you see is filtered through your beliefs. You rarely see “reality.” You see your version of it. Joe Vitale
• I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. Woody Allen
• We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward. John Paul Caponigro
• Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. Gautama Buddha
• The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story. Byron Katie
• The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra. Frederick Lenz
• If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order. Frank Herbert
• It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that ‘objective’ reality is seen through the filter of each person’s temperament. Leonard Shlain
• Without perceiving things through the old filter of past conditioning and conceptualization, one can sense the universe is intensely alive. Eckhart Tolle
• Imagine if the whole point of this experience on planet Earth was to just open ourselves up more fully to who we really are, without filters, without masks, without any restrictions. Gretchen Bleiler
• I’ve come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people’s perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true. Travis Walton
• How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• I’m interested in memory because it’s a filter through which we see our lives, and because it’s foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. Kazuo Ishiguro
• Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting. Dean Koontz
• We do not experience things as they really are! We experience things only through a filter and that filter determines what information will enter our awareness and what will be rejected. If we change the filter (our belief system), then we automatically experience the world in a completely different way. David Wolfe