Quotes about Perception
Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
- Herman Melville
The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.
- Herman Melville
Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.
- Hillary Clinton
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
- Khalil Gibran
No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they've lost they're ability to recognize that they're rich.
- Andy Stanley
In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.
- Abraham Lincoln
Sense will buy you more than dollars.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.
- Claude Levi-Strauss