Perceptive Quotes

“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

“You're very perceptive for a guy who can go a whole day without talking,” she said, peering up at him. “That's why I'm perceptive.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride

“How can you tell there's anything out there?" said the man politely. "The door's closed."
"But you know there's a whole Universe out there!" cried Zarniwoop. "You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!"
The ruler of the Universe thought for a long while while Zarniwoop quivered with anger.
"You're very sure of your facts," he said at last. "I couldn't trust the thinking of a man who takes the Universe - if there is one - for granted."
Zarniwoop still quivered, but was silent.
"I only decide about my Universe," continued the man quietly. "My Universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay."
"But don't you believe in anything?"
The man shrugged and picked up his cat.
"I don't understand what you mean," he said.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Advantages never comes free. You have to create it the way you want it!”
― Ashish Patel

“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, The Catcher in the Rye

“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

“Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that; they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.”
― Sir Terry Pratchett

“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, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I loved my father when I was a child," said Will. "I thought he was the best man I'd ever known. Then when I discovered he had squandered all our money at the gaming tables, I thought he was the worst man I'd ever known. Now that I am myself a father, I know that he was simply a man.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“Like a child at bedtime who insists she's not tired, Celia's provocation was all unproductive, almost self-negating. Sometimes I thought this was just her scorpion nature, but other times it seemed to me that she had settled on this pose purposefully, out of some dimly perceived, horribly misplaced idea that the job of an artist was to hide her light under the darkest bushel possible and wait for a dedicated acolyte to be drawn to it like a clairvoyant moth.”
― Rachel Pastan, Alena

“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, Dead Toad Scrolls

“There are two sides of a coin but multiple sides of human perceptive.”
― Amit Abraham

“Step out of yourself, you might be surprised who you will find.”
― J.R. Incer, Mastering Success: The Key to Self Empowerment and Higher Consciousness

“Children know at once when something’s wrong. They are used to having to guess what grown-ups don’t tell them.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

“You should open a shop, Geppetto. A toy shop. I can already imagine what joy you'd bring to the children."
"A toy shop?" Geppetto pretended he'd never dreamt of such a thing. "Oh, no, no. There's no future for a toy maker here."
"Is that you speaking," said Chiara softly, "or your father?"
It astounded him how easily she saw into his heart. No one had said that to him before. Was that why the fairies had come to her, because she could read his dreams and the fears that hindered them?”
― Elizabeth Lim, When You Wish Upon a Star

“Intelligence without wisdom is knowledge being stupid.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough