Quotes About Perception

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.

It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.

I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".

'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts.

As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.

The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.

The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically.

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

Primitive does not mean stupid.

Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.