Quotes about Perception
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.
— Henry David Thoreau
I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
— Nikki Giovanni
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other a horse still.
— Samuel Johnson
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . and I also know that I'm not blonde.
— Dolly Parton
It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
— Mark Twain
A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.
— CS Lewis
Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.
— George Eliot
By evil report and good report.
— Anonymous
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
— GK Chesterton
The eye is the jewel of the body.
— Henry David Thoreau
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
— Albert Einstein