Quotes about Perception
Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
— Cicero
The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.
— John Calvin
Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
— James Allen
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.
— Mark Twain
A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative.
— John Keats
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
— Dorothy Day
I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!
— Sojourner Truth
Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same
— Elton John
People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.
— Paul Washer
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.
— George Washington