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Quotes About Perception

If you look at the monkeys, you can learn many things about the men; if you look at the men, you can learn many things about the madness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
One is greater than two amongst three men where only one of them is intelligent!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he did climb up to the very top!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.
~ Melina Marchetta
But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?
~ Merle Shain
It's harder for men to imagine themselves as the girl in the movies than it is for me to imagine myself as Daniel Craig bringing down the building.
~ Meryl Streep
All my friends were girls. Then my mom's strident feminism for years where men were thought of as the enemy, I just didn't know what the right way to be a man was.
~ Michael Ian Black
By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to.
~ Michael Moore
If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.
~ Michael Palin
Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
~ Michael Scott
I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
~ Michel de Montaigne
And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
~ Michel de Montaigne
We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
~ Michel de Montaigne
When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.
~ Michel de Montaigne
A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
~ Michel de Montaigne
God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
~ Michel de Montaigne
Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.
~ Michel de Montaigne