Quotes About Perception

Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but to talk about me.

Bir toplant? çok say?da insan?n bir araya geldiÄŸi, baz?lar?n?n gerçekte düÅŸünmediklerini söyledikleri, baz?lar?n?n gerçekte yapt?klar?n? söylemedikleri bir düzenlemedir. -Er Ä°van Çonkin'in YaÅŸam? ve OlaÄŸanüstü Serüvenleri

Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

Any lady with sexy breast for a man is each time well-dressed.

The uglier as body art, the better as a bodyguard.

Illusion is the first of the pleasures

Judge others by their questions rather than by their answers.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Common sense is not so common.

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.

They said everything outside killed, so I thought nothing did.

In the end, how much distance lies between the truth and what we believe to be true? Between the things we feel at one time and the things we end up doing?