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Quotes About Perception

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.
~ Terry Pratchett
No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.
~ Thomas Browne
What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts
~ Thomas Carlyle
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it is esteemed by others.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.
~ Thomas Jefferson
You can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than re actions.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Man, I didn't think I stood a chance. I mean, she was way out of my league.she still is.
~ Tim McGraw
The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There can be no substitute for my experience and intuited knowledge.
~ Timothy Mo
Men with shaved heads are always better. Just ask my wife.
~ Tom Colicchio
Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
~ Tryon Edwards
I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?
~ Van Morrison
The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.
~ Van Wyck Brooks
I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.
~ Victoria Abril
It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if not only, handle to reality.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.
~ Wallace Stevens
Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
~ Walter Kaufmann
A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.
~ Walter Lippmann
When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.
~ Warren Farrell
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.
~ Washington Irving
You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
~ Wendell Berry
It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
~ Wendell Phillips
The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.
~ Whitney Chadwick
All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?
~ William Butler Yeats