Quotes about Perception
Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18.
- Albert Einstein
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
- Oscar Wilde
Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.
- George Clooney
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
- Oscar Wilde
In the faces of men and women I see God.
- Walt Whitman
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.
- Dennis Prager
Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.
- Mae West
Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what that other man or woman is doing.
- William Faulkner
We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.
- Tessa Afshar