Quotes About Perception

A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging.

I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.

Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.

No man can see his own prejudices.

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.

Man makes god in his own image.

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.