Controversy Quote by Proverbs 14:7

You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.

— Alison Jackson

There is nothing that sharpens a man's senses so acutely as to know that bitter and determined enemies are in pursuit of him night…

— Frederick Russell Burnham

“man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind…

— Francis Bacon

There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.

— Dalai Lama

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment…

— Baron d'Holbach

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not…

— Petrarch

Man is wise ... when he recognizes no greater enemy than himself.

— Marguerite de Navarre

The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.

— Georges Bataille

Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.

— Thomas a Kempis

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong…

— Mark Twain

If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.

— Henry Parry Liddon

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his…

— Ernst Mach