Quotes About Perception

You can tell a lot about a person's character over the phone. Not everything, but a lot. It's not always what they say but what they don't say that's the most telling,

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

The appearance of right often leads us wrong.

I never said all Democrats were saloon keepers. What I said was that all saloon keepers were Democrats.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

The hemlock tree is named spruce-pine, while spruce is he-balsam, balsam itself is she-balsam, laurel is ivy, and rhododendron is laurel.

The highlander's word "furriner" means to him what ???????? did to an ancient Greek.

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

A bystander often sees more of the game than those that play

The farther I travel, the less I wonder at anything: a few days reconcile one to a new spot, or an unseen custom; and men are so much the same everywhere, that one scare perceives a change in situation.

The most remarkable thing I have observed since I came abroad, is, that there are no people so obviously mad as the English.

Me pareció más pálida aún. Se miraron fijamente, insistentemente, aislados del mundo en aquella recta paralela de alma a alma que los mantenía inmóviles

Vezzera me miró como miran los tuberculosos condenados al reposo, a un hombre fuerte que no se jacta de ello. Y en realidad, creo que ya se precipitaba su tisis. Se

La canoa se deslizaba costeando el bosque, o lo que podía parecer bosque en aquella oscuridad. Más por instinto que por indicio alguno Subercasaux sentía

El cloroformo dilata el pecho a la primera inspiración; la segunda, inunda la boca de saliva; las extremidades hormiguean, a la tercera; a la cuarta, los labios, a la par de las ideas, se hinchan, y luego pasan cosas singulares.

Aunque me habló con loco entusiasmo de la belleza de su novia, esta apreciación suya de la hermosura en cuestión no tenía para mí ningún valor.

Yo tengo alguna idea, como todo hombre, de lo que son dos ojos que nos aman cuando uno se va acercando despacio a ellos. Pero la luz de aquellos ojos, la felicidad en que se iban anegando mientras me acercaba, el mareado relampagueo de dicha –hasta el estrabismo–cuando me incliné sobre ellos, jamás en un amor normal a treinta y siete grados los volveré a hallar.

El lujo era para ella lo que el cristal tallado para una esencia: su envase natural.