Perceptive Ability Quotes

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired, not because they practise a magic inherited from savagery, but simply and solely because they have sense. They see at a glance what most men could not see with searchlights and telescopes.... They are the supreme realists of the race.

The thing about being an outsider... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn.

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

You know how some people have gay-dar? I have fat-dar. I can automatically tell if you're fat or not. And I also have cerebral-palsy-dar.

I spot detail quickly.

I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!

Men of cold passions have quick eyes.

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.

Toni hears voices," said Trapp. "But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better than the rest of us. Maybe the voices she hears are just uncommunicated ideas, floating free.

An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching perception with which that world outside of man's contamination can be penetrated and the truth drawn out from it.

One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

I always feel safe with a woman photographer. I feel that no matter how they interpret something, they understand all sides of it because they are women, and women are complex creatures.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?

These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.

I've always found that I personally love to observe things, and I'm good at observing things.

I can analyze people's intentions. Immediately. That's just a warning. To everyone.

Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is.

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

You just had to know where to look.