Quotes About Perception

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

Gold diggers are the wife beaters of men!

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.

Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make life comfortable for themselves.

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink

I've noticed over my 22 years of living that, yes, women can be difficult, and I call myself a ladies' man, thinking I have them figured out. But as men, we will never understand women.

Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.

We do not see into men's hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

One man's creativity is another's brain damage.

Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul.

No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old.

Some things just push a man's buttons. This goes beyond what we say-and into how we say it.

Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.