Quotes about Perception

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Other peoples opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparis

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw. He paints for the dead, to remind us that - great good God, think of it - we're alive ...

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.