Quotes about Perception
One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls:
- Emily Bronte
She may be beautiful, but she's certainly no angel.
- Emily Bronte
I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears: she understood me at last, and looked a return - the sweetest of all imaginable looks.
- Emily Bronte
I tell you I have nearly attained my heaven; and that of others is altogether undervalued and uncoveted by me.'' Heathcliff
- Emily Bronte
Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
- Epictetus
Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?
- Epictetus
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
- Epictetus
If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
If a man has reported to you, that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make any defense to what has been told you: but reply, The man did not know the rest of my faults, for he would not have mentioned these only.
- Epictetus
Man, the rational animal, can put up with anything except what seems to him irrational; whatever is rational is tolerable.
- Epictetus
Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions.
- Epictetus
If anyone tells you that a certain person has spoken in a bad way about you, don't make excuses about what has been said, but answer: "He was ignorant of my other faults, otherwise he would have mentioned those also.
- Epictetus