Quotes About Perception

Thoughts are ghosts of emotions.

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.

Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

To the good listener half a word is enough.

If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.

Scuttlebutt is one of the most overlooked acts that can decrease one's sagacity

People always have such a hard time believing that robots could do bad things.

My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don't have nothing to do with your new friend

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

Jealousy is a rather enjoyable emotion to watch.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

He who is jealous, is never jealous of what you see, with what is imagined is enough.

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

Jealousy in the air tonight, I could tell. I will never understand that but oh well.

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too.

But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there.

Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.