Quotes about Perception
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
— William Hazlitt
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.
— Soren Kierkegaard
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.
— George Bernard Shaw
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
— George Bernard Shaw
Without tact you can learn nothing.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.
— Anonymous
It gives me great strength to know that half the people I meet are below average.
— Anonymous
I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!
— Anonymous
I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
— Charles Dickens
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
— Emily Bronte
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
— Francois Rabelais
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson