Quotes About Perception

It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother.

Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it

I really enjoyed being a blonde. Men were more friendly and flirtatious. My face looked more worldly. It took the innocence away. It could be the new me.

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all.

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.

The instinct to notice changes gives women a tremendous advantage over men.

A racist is a man who believes in history, genetics, and his eyes!

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

We got to stop doing that, ladies. You know, men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal.

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.

The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.

One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who needs a psychiatrist must be crazy.

The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.