Quotes About Perception

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.

I think the intelligence I get is darn good intelligence.

There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It's always smarter than we are.

When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.

True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.

Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?

I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent.

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

I tend to equate sadness with intelligence.

Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.

We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.

I think human intelligence is the only one that will actually tell you intent.

Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.

I looked into his eyes, and I realized he was the same man I'd seen in my dreams. His face might be totally different, but the same soul was in there, the same intelligence and all the sadness.

Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Any girl can be glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid.

From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was.