Quotes About Perception

It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.

American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]

Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]

As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]

What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind.

Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.

And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.

It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.

The worse the haircut, the better the man.

If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?

If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.