Quotes About Perception

I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price?

The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence.

In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art.

Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.

I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.

There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

<...> I've never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It's the intelligence. It's the mind that makes it so.

TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.

Intelligence is derived from two words

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.