#Perception Quotes

“Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.”

“He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.”

“'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.”

“Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.”

“In the night, imagining some fear,How easy is a bush supposed a bear!”

“Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd with dew. Say she be mute and will not speak a word; Then I'll commend her volubility, and say she uttereth piercing eloquence.”

“That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.”

“woah is me to have seen what i seen see what i see”

“Thus did I keep my person fresh and new,My presence, like a robe pontifical,Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state,Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast.”

“There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.”

“The present eye praises the present object.”

“But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.”

“A jest's prosperity lies in the ear”

“He makes a July's day short as December.”

“This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.”

“love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit”

“Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.”

“Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England." "Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?" "Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there." "Why?" "'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.”

“Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.”

“Fools are not mad folks.”

“But pearls are fair; and the old saying is:Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.”

“'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed”

“She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,Were man as rare as Phoenix.”

“Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.”

“And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.”

“The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many thing by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!”

“Is this a vision? Is this a dream? Do I sleep?”

“Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.”

“Our very eyesAre sometimes, like our judgments, blind.”

“The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.”

“I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.”

“Faults that are rich are fair.”

“We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament”

“Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.”

“Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.”

“Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.”

“So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time”

“The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.”

“But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?”

“But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?”

“Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.”

“Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.”

“Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.”

“Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.”

“The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.”

“One sees more devils than vast hell can hold”

“The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.”

“We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.”