Quotes about Perception
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.
- CS Lewis
a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.
- Charles Dickens
That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.
- DH Lawrence
Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless.
- Deepak Chopra
So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
- Don Cheadle
What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.
- Elbert Hubbard
Can a man of perception respect himself at all?
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.
- Madeleine Albright
Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.
- Marcus Aurelius