Quotes About Perception

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get...Is that because women are considered something less?

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

You're not a man, you're a mushroom!

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.

A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman alive.

Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could find more girls who would choose me for a husband than can carry any of the young men.

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.

Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

Focus group research has created a composite No-Man who resembles no-one anyone has ever met.

I'm not into younger men. A couple of years younger, maybe, but I'm not a cougar. I'm not a panther either.