Quotes about Perception
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
— Aristotle
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.
— Carl Jung
Man sees your actions, but God your motives.
— Thomas a Kempis
A man once said when the legend gets bigger than the man, you've lost the man and you have an unrealistic picture.
— Frank Sinatra Jr.
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
— John Henry Newman
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
— Joseph Addison
A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.
— Ayn Rand
Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.
— Carl Jung
I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
— Victor Hugo
Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
— Victor Hugo
I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
— Will Rogers
Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.
— Henry Ward Beecher