Quotes About Perception

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.

What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.

For each man there awaits... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot, I know I can beat him.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.

Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

One man's fish is another man's poisson.

The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.

I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!

There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.

No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man.' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.