Quotes About Perception

Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

As I was going up the stair I met a man who wan't there He wasn't there again today Oh I wish he'd go away!

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

You've got a man-beast, and a ho-beast.

Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.

The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, 'You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'.

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.

He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.

The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.

A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.

[W]e are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.

While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself...

Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.