Desiree Rogers Quotes

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.

We are all disposed to attribute to other's motives and views that we have entertained ourselves.

An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.

I don't believe in inspiration at all. We live in a world that demands explanation. And fiction has the capability to offer explanations for things.

What you think you see and what you think a guy did wrong, maybe he did right. Or you see a touchdown pass, but the guy might've been wrong. Something crazy might have happened. You don't know that. That's the toughest thing when it comes to judging play on a football field.

I always have a reason for why I do something.

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.

When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Hope likes justification, but can do without.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice. ... Inevitably he would be in a state of paralysis. He could not get up in the morning, or choose his necktie, or make his way to the office, ... or, to come right down to the essence of the thing, even maintain his identity.

If you read, you'll judge.

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.

Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason.