Quotes About Perception

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.

Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

Men see what they expect to see.

Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.

Power resides where men believe it to reside.

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.

When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness

There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun.

The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.

Smell alone amongst the senses can either destroy or quite remake a man.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

All men are body conscious. If they say they're not, they're lying.