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Quotes About Perception

The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.
~ Robert Jordan
The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.
~ Hanna Rosin
In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.
~ Hannah More
I'm really boring, man. Like, I'm really dull. And I think people may think that I have this glamorous, fun lifestyle, but it's pretty dull. But that's what I like.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
I had an old man moment the other day. I went into Abercrombie & Fitch to get some jeans and the music was so loud I couldn't stay.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it.
~ Harry Hooton
The man just is, but clothes are becoming.
~ Harry Hooton
The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.
~ Hector Hugh Munro
I guess anyone with a beautiful body, man or woman, loves to be looked at, but to admit such a thing is a little rough at times. That's why it's hard to get people to pose.
~ Helen Gurley Brown
I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
As a man thinks of himself, so he is.
~ Henry David Thoreau
One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is the man determines what is said, not the words.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.
~ Henry David Thoreau
For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.
~ Henry David Thoreau
This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.
~ Henry David Thoreau
One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
~ Henry David Thoreau
One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.
~ Henry David Thoreau