Seeing Quotes

I am not an ornithologist—I am a bird.

~ Saul Bellow

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic of his tribe consists in looking at the world with eyes wide open in wonder. Everything in the world is strange and marvelous to well-open eyes.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

Even the right is wrong from the other side.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Everything is like a wall. Said a scholar to the troll. Bang your head to go on through. Then you'll see, there is no queue.

~ Will Advise

Perception is reality to the one in the experience.

~ Danielle Bernock

I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.

~ Mark Nepo

Every experience is seen through your mind's eye, so when you change your mind you change your entire world.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I don't sleep. I just let my body lie itself into numbness and lie to myself that I can't hear, see, or feel anything.

~ Will Advise

I only enjoy what I can see, because I don't feel anything. For example, your new wallpaper. I like it and it can stay, it's quiet and it keeps quiet at least. Luckily I don't have to feel it, just see it.

~ Elfriede Jelinek

For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man.To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service.Bravo. Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. Bra-vo!

~ Frank Beddor

The eye of a man is never satisfied with what it sees.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The more one thinks, the less one sees.

~ Marty Rubin

If you change your way of thinking and being, you will change your way of seeing.

~ Tanya Masse

It is a torture to see people whom you don't like.

~ Nikita Dudani

I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dangling, and with a steel knife claw a rent in the top, peep, and, if I must, fall.

~ Annie Dillard

A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. And so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as the two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity as a woman. She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to men, is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life. Her own sense of being in herself is supplanted by a sense of being appreciated as herself by another....One might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object -- and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.

~ John Berger

Choosing beauty and love does not mean being uninformed or weak; it means you clearly see the ugliness, but choose love anyway.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Tremendously meaningful outreach begins with how you choose to see the world.

~ Bryant Mcgill

My eyes are my greatest sin.

~ Warren Eyster

Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees.

~ Louis L'amour

If you allow the life to happen, by connecting with your inner world, then you don’t have to worry about the changes with your perception or the change in the outside world. All you have to do is to follow your inner truth, to reach to your destination.

~ Roshan Sharma

The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.

~ Don Chadwick

We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.

~ Thomas Bernhard

He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead.

~ Álvaro De Campos

You haven’t done your best yet because you haven’t seen the best you can do yet. You are where you are now because you haven’t seen where you can be yet. If you see, your attitude, thought and tactics towards life will definitely change

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Recognizing isn't at all like seeing, the two often don't even agree.

~ Sten Nadolny

His eyes saved him. What they insisted on seeing and reporting to him took him out of the autism of terror.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

The seer does not see, by choice, what the blind can see by default... from within.

~ T.f. Hodge

Seeing within changes one's outer vision.

~ Joseph Chilton Pearce

Ugliness sees ugliness, beauty sees beauty.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Through love, you see the whole world, not just people, differently.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I saw myself dancing alone, always alone

~ V.c. Andrews

The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality.

~ Henry James

If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he'll see right into your soul. I didn't want anyone to see into my soul.

~ Patricia Reilly Giff

What I see is nothing - I want what it hides - that is not nothing.

~ Jean Rhys

By looking at only one place, you miss everything in all the other places! Look everywhere to see everything!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

She goes on with her beautiful hair and mouth like before,I go on like before, alone in the field.It’s like my head had been lowered,And if I think this, and raise my headAnd the golden sun dries the need to cry I can’t stop having.How vast the field and interior love... !I look, and I forget, like dryness where there was water and trees losing their leaves.

~ Alberto Caeiro

Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.

~ Tarjei Vesaas

All this seeing.All this relentless taking in.

~ Lance Olsen

I've traveled. All over. I've never seen anything like you. How could anything be put together like you? Do you know how beautiful you are? Have you looked at yourself?''I'm looking now.

~ Toni Morrison