Quotes about Perception
I think he tries to be nice. But he has absolutely zero self-awareness. None. Zip. So we see the public Donald Trump, the candidate, as being different than the in-person Donald Trump.
— Mark Cuban
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.
— Mortimer Adler
Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
— Anonymous
The defects of a preacher are soon spied.
— Martin Luther
Colors speak all languages.
— Joseph Addison
None are so blind as those who will not see.
— Anonymous
I knew I was drunk. I felt sophisticated and couldn't pronounce it.
— Anonymous
You can tell German wine from vinegar ... by the label.
— Mark Twain
We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things.
— Epictetus
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
— Oscar Wilde
Little things affect little minds.
— Benjamin Disraeli