1,601 Quotes About Perception

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.

The good thing about being judged by others. Being monitored by others, that they are forever in your case. They point out every wrong thing you do to shame and humiliate you in. You end being perfect person , because you fixing the mistakes they point out. They end up being bad and not so perfect people. They keep on repeating bad things you are no longer doing, because no one is watching over them and they are also not watching what they do.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

Your inability to see the wisdom in someone else is not a reflection on their lack of perspicacity, it is a reflection on yours.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.

Life is a spread of surprises and it is both a privilege and a challenge to respond to things and events, and find the right answers to prickly questions. In this process, however, it might be wise to change first our perception and our way of looking at things, before persistently changing the very things and altering their hallmark. (“Life out there “)

I see you better in music, I hear you better in wind, I feel you more in a flooding moonlight, that understands nothing, but darkness and silence.

A negative outlook is dangerous. When you say, “It can’t get any worse!” You're essentially challenging the universe to do exactly that.