Quotes about Perception
People don't believe what you tell them.They rarely believe what you show them.They often believe what their friends tell them.They always believe what they tell themselves.
— Seth Godin
I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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.
— JM Coetzee
What a splendid head, yet no brain.
— Aesop
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
— Frederick Douglass
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
— Helen Keller
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.
— Joseph Heller
Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.
— Maya Angelou
It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.
— Mark Twain
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
— George Bernard Shaw
Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.
— Dean Frazer
Gratitude bestows reverence... changing forever how we experience life and the world.
— John Milton