Quotes About Perception

Por otra parte, ese fenómeno se ve reforzado por el deseo de la gente de mostrar a los demás o a sí mismos que son «gente de bien»; nuestro altruismo no es totalmente puro, sino que está motivado en parte por nuestro deseo de aparentar, de labrarnos una buena imagen social y personal.

Así, desde septiembre de 2001, en Estados Unidos ha habido 200.000 homicidios, de los que únicamente 50 fueron perpetrados por terroristas islámicos estadounidenses[7]; lo que no impide que los actos terroristas se graben en nuestra mente.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?

You are the most sleepiest man I ever seed.

As you know, men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

You could never be sure, at any given moment, whether she was inhabiting her own private fantasy land—which she seemed to do most of the time—or whether she was on one of her flying visits to what passed for reality.

Old people needn't think they deserved respect just because they were old.

you've either got a brain or you haven't. If you have, then you don't need me to spell things out to you. If you haven't, there's no point in talking to you.

He had never hit a woman in his life, but there were some women who asked for it.

Don't you ever read any of the books about women who enjoyed it?' he said. 'Enjoyed being raped?' 'Enjoyed the company of men.' 'Oh! Well, some of them say they did.' 'So why would they say it if it wasn't true?' For a moment that stumped her. 'I just can't imagine it,' she said, 'that's all.

Don't listen to the words— they're only little shapes for what you're saying, they're only cups if you're thirsty, you aren't thirsty.

Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24)

The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what it means.

One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.

Aren't men funny? When they want to pay you the greatest compliment in their power, they naively tell you that you have a masculine mind. There is one compliment, incidentally, that I shall never be paying him. I cannot honestly say that he has a quickness of perception almost feminine.

I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going largely on his reputation.

the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Os homens não são engraçados? Quando querem lhe fazer o maior elogio, ingenuamente dizem que você tem uma mente masculina.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

But Julia hasn't a bit of tact; and men, I find, require a great deal. They purr if you rub them the right way and spit if you don't. (That isn't a very elegant metaphor. I mean it figuratively.)

We Americans unjustly hold the French to a New World standard, the authors state. But they're no more New World than the Japanese.