Quotes about Perception
Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.
— JC Ryle
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
— John Lennon
Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.
— Thomas a Kempis
The primary cause of this national crisis is the feminization of men.
— Tony Evans
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
— Victor Hugo
All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.
— Charles Spurgeon
I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
— DH Lawrence
Beware the lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready assumption that the lovely façade must needs have lovely chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.
— Erica Jong
Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.
— Gloria Steinem
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
— Albert Camus
Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson