Quotes About Perception

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

Somewhere, someone isn't impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You're unbelievably boring to more people than you'll ever know.

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.

Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

Pigs are very intelligent. They're very misunderstood. Yet they're sort of man's unofficial best friend.

The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.

Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.

No man will be present in those mysteries, yet all men will kneel, no man will be potent, important, yet all men will feel what it is to be a woman.

Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.

The eye is the window of the soul; even an animal looks for a man's intentions right into his eyes.