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1. “Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people are like extroverts, but the effort costs them in energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama.”
Susan Cain
Appearance Versus Reality, Introverts, Emotional Depth, Authenticity, Social Perception
3. “The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There's this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which was the communist interpretation through Lawrence Lipton.” Allen Ginsberg Counterculture, Misinterpretation, Literary History, Social Perception, Cultural Analysis, Artistic Movement
4. “I have often been reproached with the aridity of my genius; a deficiency of imagination has been imputed to me as a crime; and the Pyrrhonism of my opinions has at all times rendered me notorious.” Edgar Allan Poe Genius, Imagination, Criticism, Philosophical Insight, Personal Struggle, Social Perception
10. “In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.? What is it then?? It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.” Orson Scott Card Suicide, Shame, Powerlessness, Hiding, Psychological Insight, Social Perception
16. “The intellectual allure of pessimism has been known for ages. John Stuart Mill wrote in the 1840s: “I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.”” Morgan Housel Pessimism Appeal, John Stuart Mill, Hope Vs Despair, Intellectual Insight, Historical Wisdom, Social Perception
19. “When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one’s voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.” Carl Jung Communication, Self-expression, Social Perception, Personal Voice, Understanding Others, Silent Rebellion
25. “A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.” Jane Austen Economic Independence, Social Perception, Fortunate Freedom, Independence, Perception, Freedom
27. “Be what you would seem to be – or, if you’d like it put more simply – never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.” Lewis Carroll Identity paradox, Self-image, Social perception, Personal authenticity, Identity confusion, Existential complexity
29. “Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!” Aristotle Perception of Normality, Society’s Standards, Mental Health, Norm vs Aberration, Social Perception
Social Perception Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people are like extroverts, but the effort costs them in energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama.”
Susan Cain Appearance Versus Reality, Introverts, Emotional Depth, Authenticity, Social Perception
3. “The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There's this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which was the communist interpretation through Lawrence Lipton.”
Allen Ginsberg Counterculture, Misinterpretation, Literary History, Social Perception, Cultural Analysis, Artistic Movement
4. “I have often been reproached with the aridity of my genius; a deficiency of imagination has been imputed to me as a crime; and the Pyrrhonism of my opinions has at all times rendered me notorious.”
Edgar Allan Poe Genius, Imagination, Criticism, Philosophical Insight, Personal Struggle, Social Perception
10. “In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.? What is it then?? It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.”
Orson Scott Card Suicide, Shame, Powerlessness, Hiding, Psychological Insight, Social Perception
16. “The intellectual allure of pessimism has been known for ages. John Stuart Mill wrote in the 1840s: “I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.””
Morgan Housel Pessimism Appeal, John Stuart Mill, Hope Vs Despair, Intellectual Insight, Historical Wisdom, Social Perception
19. “When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one’s voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.”
Carl Jung Communication, Self-expression, Social Perception, Personal Voice, Understanding Others, Silent Rebellion
25. “A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.”
Jane Austen Economic Independence, Social Perception, Fortunate Freedom, Independence, Perception, Freedom
27. “Be what you would seem to be – or, if you’d like it put more simply – never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”
Lewis Carroll Identity paradox, Self-image, Social perception, Personal authenticity, Identity confusion, Existential complexity
29. “Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!”
Aristotle Perception of Normality, Society’s Standards, Mental Health, Norm vs Aberration, Social Perception
