Quotes About Perception

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.

He had therefore begun to think it not unwise in us to cover our bodies, and by that invention conceal many of our deformities from each other, which would else be hardly supportable.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

If a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work.

He put this engine [a silver pocket watch] into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of a water-mill: and we conjecture it is either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships; but we are more inclined to the latter opinion, because he assured us, (if we understood him right, for he expressed himself very imperfectly) that he seldom did any thing without consulting it. He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life.

Phantasie ist die Gabe, unsichtbare Dinge zu sehen.

que vinieron a confirmarme más en mi vieja convicción de que no existe nada demasiado irracional y disparatado que no haya sido sostenido como verdad alguna vez por los filósofos.

Bütün bana anlatt?klar?n?zdan, sorular?ma verdiÄŸiniz yan?tlardan, ülkeniz halk?ndan birçoÄŸunun, yeryüzünün en aptal ve en kötü yarat?klar? olduÄŸu sonucunu ç?kar?yorum.

Thus the young ladies are as much ashamed of being cowards and fools as the men, and despise all personal ornaments, beyond decency and cleanliness: neither did I perceive any difference in their education made by their difference of sex, only that the exercises of the females were not altogether so robust; and

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it; so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale has had its effect: like a man, who has thought of a good repartee, when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who has found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

Qual não foi o meu espanto quando enxerguei uma figurinha humana que pouco mais teria de seis polegadas, empunhando um arco e uma flecha, e com uma aljava às costas!

Indudablemente los filósofos están en lo cierto cuando nos dicen que nada es grande ni pequeño sino por comparación.

La sabiduría es como una gallina, que debemos sabe, cuyo cacareo debemos saber valorar y considerar, pues es acompañado por un huevo

La sabiduría es como una gallina, cuyo cacareo debemos saber valorar y considerar, pues es acompañado por un huevo.

nas relações vulgares da vida, parecem estúpidos, mazombos, enfadonhos, malcriados.

Jonathan Swift

Anlamad???n?z bir insan? delidir diye nitelemek o kadar kolayd?r ki!

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all

O amor não se prova, nem se mede. É como Gabriela. Existe, isso basta - falou João Fulgêncio. - O facto de não se compreender ou explicar uma coisa não acaba com ela. Nada sei das estrelas, mas as vejo no céu, são a beleza da noite.

Porque - eu vos digo - temos olhos de ver e olhos de não ver, depende do estado do coração de cada um.

Yo no sabía si era yo quien siempre elegía mal las compañías o si la gente acababa siendo diferente de lo que yo pensaba" - Déjame que te cuente