Quotes About Perception

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew.

We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self.

It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.

What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.

When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.

Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.

Men simply don't understand how women are. They think there's some other kind.

Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.

Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.