Quotes about Perception

I can give you the King's English and then I can take it to the street, but do both or do one and don't do one knowing only the street. That's going to hold you back because what comes out is going to impress people, and it will impress them negatively.

I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

The nature of rumor is known to all.

Women are supposed to be very calm generally, but women feel just as men feel.

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

The formula "two and two make five" is not without its attractions.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem.