Quotes About Perception

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be

To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they're blind to your shortcomings, but, because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.

True friends listens clearly to what you are saying and closely to what you're not saying.

Look for the quality in people like you would in a fresh new pair of shoes.

Boys use the word 'friendship' to start love, girls use the word 'friendship' to end it... same word, different attitude.

When a girl changes her clothes in front of you, she's either really interested in you or you are at level 99 of the friend zone...

Guys use the word friendship to start a relationship. Girls use the word friendship to end it...

I prefer to hang out with guys because they're less dramatic. It doesn't mean I'm sleeping with them.

Showing your friend a funny video on YouTube and constantly checking their face to make sure they're enjoying it...

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

If your friend says of some picture, Yes, but what does it mean? ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his shoes

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.