Quotes about Perception

All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.

I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine

Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.

A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.

People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.