Quotes About Perception

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

Man - a figment of God's imagination.

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.

It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.

On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of.

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

In the present age, a man with harmonious ideas is regarded as out of touch.

The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.

We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I,who were both Jewish, were going over toidentify the remains of a man who was soanti-Semitic.

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.

When you're a kid and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.

Wearing a hat implies that you are bald if you are a man and that your hair is dirty if you are a woman.

This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.