Quotes About Perception

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women.

Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.

Men never believe a woman can do anything.

It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it.

It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

Men. <...> They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.

Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.

In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

Okay. So, apparently I find burly Indian men attractive. What's wrong with that?

Truly God was good, to make man so blind.

Well, if you're not a man in glasses standing in front of me with a tape recorder going like this, I can't see anything. But if you are, then I see perfectly well.

According to a new study, most men would like women to occasionally pick up the check. The study also found that most women would occasionally like to be paid as much as men for doing the same job.

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.

All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

We're not used to seeing movies, especially with physical action, when it isn't the man who comes in to save the day.

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

Women wearing men's clothes are chic, men wearing women's clothes make us fall on the floor laughing.