Let’s watch out for the unpredictability and the wildcat jumps of contrarian people, whose sole interests are soaring targets at high-speed, at all costs and without any consideration. Perceptive understanding may help us discover the hidden actualities behind the ‘appearances’. .(Mama. Meine Bäume wachsen bis in den Himmel)

~ Erik Pevernagie

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Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Able Aphorism Aphorisms Aphorist Aphorists Astute Brainless Brainy Bright Brilliant Bubbleheaded Canny Clever Dense Dim Discerning Discriminating Dopey Dozy Dull Witted Dumb Enlightened Feebleminded Foolish Funny Gifted Halfwitted Hilarious Humor Humorous Humour Idiotic Ignorant Insightful Intelligent Intuitive Irrational Joke Jokes Judicious Knowing Knowledgeable Knuckleheaded Learned Logical Lunkheaded Mindless Obtuse Perceptive Perspicacious Prudent Quick On The Uptake Quick Witted Quotations Quotes Rational Sagacious Sage Sane Sapient Satire Sensible Sharp Witted Shrewd Silly Simpleminded Slow Smart Sophisticated Sound Stupid Talented Thick Thoughtless Unintelligent Vacuous Vapid Wise Witless

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.

~ Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Humour Perceptive Science Fiction Fantasy

Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Able Aesthetic Alluring Appealing Arresting Artistic Astute Attractive Beautiful Beauty Beguiling Bewitching Brainy Bright Brilliant Canny Charming Clever Cook Cultivated Cultured Cute Decorative Delightful Discerning Divine Drop Dead Gorgeous Easy On The Eye Educated Elegant Engaging Enlightened Erudite Exquisite Foxy Gifted Glamorous Good Looking Gorgeous Graceful Handsome Hot Humor Humour Hunky Insightful Intellect Intelligent Intuitive Killer Kitchen Knowledgeable Learned Lovely Magnificent Perceptive Perspicacious Prepossessing Pretty Quick On The Uptake Quick Witted Satire Scholarly Sex Smart Striking Stunning Talented Well Educated Well Informed Well Read Winsome Ravishing Woman Women

Gifted people of discernment, intelligence, and talent flourish in virtually every occupation. Every field produces perceptive and prescient persons whom exhibit the rare capacity to observe what eludes most people.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.

~ John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck America Perceptive Travel

But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you find it - by which morphological or expressive calibration? Where is your authentic body? You are the only one who can never see yourself except as an image; you never see your eyes unless they are dulled by the gaze they rest upon the mirror or the lens (I am interested in seeing my eyes only when they look at you): even and especially for your own body, you are condemned to the repertoire of its images.

~ Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes Identity Perceptive Self Perception

Novel ideas are unsettling, innovative concepts about important matters in human affairs is disruptive of the internal harmony that people prefer. There is a tendency even for the most logical and classically educated people steeped in rational scholastic traditions to assume that if any new hypothesis were correct, a scholar would already written it in a book.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Kilroy J. Oldster Ideas New Ideas New Insights New Interpretations Perceptive

I have a feeling that you're riding for some terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind. This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit the bottom. He just keeps falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started...

~ J.d. Salinger

J.d. Salinger Insightful Intuitive Perceptive