Quotes About Perception

Man is the measure of all things.

This being had only come to me, only manifested itself outside of activity and immediate enjoyment, on those rare occasions when the miracle of an analogy had made me escape the present. And only this being had the power to perform that task which had always defeated the efforts of my memory and my intellect, the power to make me rediscover days that were long past, the Time that was Lost.

with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.

The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees.

A good listener is a silent flatterer

A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand.

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.

The eyes are the mirror of the soul.

Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks

If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us.

Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses.

Silence is also speech.

All is not butter that comes from the cow.

A good dress often hides a deceiver.

A person with a bad name is already half-hanged.

A rich man is never ugly in the eyes of a girl.

A rich man's foolish sayings pass for wise ones.

A woman listens only to the advice of a fool.

A woman talks to one man, looks at another, and thinks about a third.

A young woman with an old man is really someone else's woman.

Even a sheep with the skin of a tiger is afraid of the wolf.

Everyone thinks his own thoughts are best.