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Quotes About Perception

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be
~ Edith Wharton
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
~ Edmund Spenser
I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.
~ Edward Dahlberg
Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
~ Edward Young
Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.
~ Elbert Hubbard
After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle.
~ Elvis Presley
I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I'm a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery.
~ Emily Remler
Man is not in the world to set it right, but to see it rightly.
~ Eric Butterworth
A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.
~ Eric Hoffer
A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
~ Fiona Shaw
Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.
~ Francis Marion Crawford
In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.
~ Francoise Sagan
What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.
~ Frederick Franck
One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
~ Gary Oldman
A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.
~ Gelett Burgess
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
~ George Bernard Shaw