Quotes about Perception
Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.
— Virginia Woolf
Squaring numbers are just like women. If they're under thirteen, just do them in your head.
— Bo Burnham
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
— Thomas Paine
Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
— Booker T. Washington
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.
— Virginia Woolf
In the godly, holy truths are conveyed by way of a taste; gracious men have a spiritual palate as well as a spiritual eye. Grace alters the spiritual taste.
— Richard Sibbes
The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
— Theodore Roosevelt
If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
— Elbert Hubbard
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
— Oscar Wilde