Quotes about Perception
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.
- Samuel Johnson
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
- Samuel Johnson
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
- Samuel Johnson
When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.
- Tina Fey
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.
- Aristotle
The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We do not see into men's hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.
- CS Lewis
Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)
- CS Lewis
A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.
- Samuel Johnson
For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.
- Thomas Henry Huxley