Quotes about Perception
There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.
— Mark Twain
S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?
— Mark Twain
a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block" -Nyah
— Paulo Coelho
It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God's sight than to appear lovely to man's eyes but lame to God's.
— Oswald Chambers
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.
— Henry David Thoreau
Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
— Henry Ward Beecher