Quotes About Perception

75% to 90% of American trial lawyers are incompetent, dishonest, or both.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get (Ben Graham).

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under their bullshit, but you never look! That's what I hate most about this fucking city-- LIES ARE NEWS AND TRUTH IS OBSOLETE!

Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

Men are the invisible victims of America's violence.

The difficulty in telling this story – my whole story, in fact – is that there is no way for me to communicate duration of time to you. It may have taken a minute for you to have read of my position in this punishment cell, but I was in this position for a whole month. How do I convey that notion to you? There are no markers with which I can measure. The only way for you to come close to experiencing this is to read the previous paragraph, over and

The difference between men I have camped with and myself, generally speaking,' Mary Roberts Reinhart wrote, 'has been this: they have called it sport; I have known it as work.

Chiun had often warned him against thinking too much, lest his greater senses be dulled to the subtleties of the moment.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject.... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a thousand years ago.

On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveller in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, and muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horror-struck on perceiving that he was headless!--but his horror was still more increased on observing that the head, which should have rested on his shoulders, was carried before him on the pommel of his saddle!

It has also been the peculiar lot of our country to be visited by the worst kind of English travellers.

what is it to know a variety of languages, but merely to have a variety of sounds express the same idea? Original thought is ore of the mind; language is but the stamp and coinage by which it is put into circulation.

No importa cuán despierto hayas sido, una vez te adentras en las sombras de esta región ya no puedes permanecer ajeno a su influjo; la ensoñación mágica de su atmósfera se apodera de ti al instante;

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. I

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the sex, as by their own imaginations. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.