Quotes About Perception

Some people may think I am still young and still a boy but now I feel like I am a man.

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

Yes, Simone, he is mentally unstable for being attracted to you. call the men in white suits.

The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.

Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talked like a man.

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.

It's not what's there that counts, it's what's projected and?it's not what he projects but rather what the voter receives? It's not the man we have to change, but rather the received impression.

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.