Perceptive Understanding Quotes

You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

Genius knows where the questions are hidden.

The thing itself is one; the images are many. What leads to a perceptive understanding of the thing is not the focus on one image, but the viewing of many images together.

The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of... prolonged tuition.

Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.

A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life.

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

Women read each other at a single glance.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

Insight is the first condition of Art.

I think understanding or comprehension is probably the strongest emotion that you feel, or at least some kind of empathy.

Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.

I try to see what that person is thinking or feeling about that particular day. I just get more of a sense of what that person's like and hopefully it's more interesting than a normal conversation.

It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.

The discreet man finds out the talents of those he converses with, and knows how to apply them to proper uses. Accordingly, if we look into particular communities and divisions of men, we may observe that it is the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, who guides the conversation, and gives measures to the society.

The fact was that where Will is concerned, she was developing a new kind of sense, as if he were simply more in focus than anyone she'd known before. Everything about him was clear and close and immediate.

If you are halfway smart, and you could really listen to the audience, you could really learn a lot.