Quotes About Perception

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.

Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

It is your attitude about yourself that a man will adopt.

Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?

Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.

I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.

I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is.

To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.

If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin Then mister you're a better man than I

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the man who, coming to a mine of diamonds, begins to search for glass beads.

Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.