Quotes about Perception
The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
— Marquis de Sade
There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.
— Oscar Wilde
The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.
— Samuel Johnson
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
— Samuel Johnson
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.
— Tina Fey
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.
— Aristotle
The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
We do not see into men's hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.
— CS Lewis