Top 100 Quotes About What We See
#1. Money is like a mirror to our culture. What we see tells us who we are.
Jacob Needleman
#2. It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam of our lives, a respite just before the onset of imminent tragedy.
Joe Meno
#3. Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live in. As such it's always potent stuff, and dangerous.
Lynda Williams
#4. 'Mosaic' is about what we see and what we don't see. I learned how people can develop other senses to compensate for a missing one when I was a child. My best friend, Carol, who is profoundly deaf, saved me from an approaching car that she 'heard' when I didn't.
Gayle Lynds
#5. It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.
William Barrett
#6. He [Nicolaus Steno] told the audience, Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understand. Most beautiful is what we do not comprehend.
Mira Bartok
#7. To see more than a reflection requires us to filter what we see, to view the world with honest eyes.
Fennel Hudson
#8. And I believe that if 100 million people became embodiments of peace, the world would transform, because consciousness is a collective phenomenon. And what we see as good and evil is the balance between forces.
Deepak Chopra
#9. The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!
Pablo Picasso
#10. We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves.
Donatella Versace
#11. We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
Herodotus
#12. Fear is really the sin of unbelief....I am talking about fear coming from believing what we see over what God tells us is true.
Jean A. Sturgill
#13. That's all right," says Billy. "We're blending what we see but we aren't allowing ourselves to be victimized by what we see.
Michael Lewis
#14. There is another reality, beyond what we see with our eyes. You have to feel your way into that reality with your heart. There is no other way.
Gregory David Roberts
#15. When we meet beautiful people, what we see on the outside doesn't always reflect what's on the inside
Lori Hatcher
#16. Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read.
Bernie Sanders
#17. What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things.
Haruki Murakami
#18. You get what you focus on. What we see ahead impacts the actions we take right now. How we live and lead is directly connected to what we see.
Michael Hyatt
#19. Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference ...
Blaise Pascal
#20. What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
Edith Sitwell
#21. And which comes first? her unbearable mother is saying. What we see or how we see it?
Ali Smith
#22. We are going to learn more by what we see than by what we hear. Our actions speak so loudly that we don't have to say a word.. Words only account for about seven percent of our communication.
John Assaraf
#23. To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
Iain McGilchrist
#24. I love all waste
and solitary places; where we taste
the pleasure of believing what we see.
Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#25. The computers in Atlantis were infinitely evolved as opposed to what we see today. The science, the technology, everything was really done with light. All processing was done with light, with crystal formations and structures. Electricity is much too slow.
Frederick Lenz
#26. We believe what we see.' ... What do you do when you're in the dark?
Yann Martel
#27. Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.
Fernando Pessoa
#29. Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.
Edwidge Danticat
#31. We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
Lisa Alther
#32. It is not change that causes anxiety; it is the feeling that we are without defenses in the presence of what we see as danger that causes anxiety.
Robert Kegan
#33. When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.
Damian Loeb
#34. Thus, to explain what we see in the world and in our mental deductions, we must believe in what we cannot prove.
Alan Lightman
#35. I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but because of what others have seen in it. We get almost all our wonders at second hand.
Mark Twain
#36. We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?
Stephen Hawking
#37. If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Honore De Balzac
#38. Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.
Peter Camejo
#39. The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
Robert Penn Warren
#40. One of my favorite things to do within horror is explore this feeling that a lot of people seem to have from time to time, of there being currents of another reality running beneath, or alongside, what we see and interact with every day.
Brian Hodge
#41. what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves. Elise
Richard Paul Evans
#42. In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#43. What we make of people, and what we see in the mirror when we look at ourselves, depends on what we know of the world, what we believe to be possible, what memories we have, and whether our loyalties are to the past, the present or the future.
Theodore Zeldin
#44. Science fiction doesn't try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present ... We sit around and look at what we see around us and we say how can the world be different
Samuel R. Delany
#45. We shall see but little if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!
Henry David Thoreau
#46. The internet is a reflection of our society and that mirror is going to be reflecting what we see.
If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.
Vint Cerf
#47. We believe what we see.
So did Columbus. What do you do when you're in the dark?
Yann Martel
#49. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
John Berger
#50. Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here in America, but certainly what we see globally. And I don't see anywhere any philosophical analysis that suggests we know how to get out of this.
Harry Belafonte
#51. Each of us has a unique perspective on the world around us, an inner eye that has more to do with how we think than with what we see.
David Sturt
#52. We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
Charles Peguy
#53. What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.
Ellen Langer
#54. In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.
John Lubbock
#55. We aspire to what we think we can achieve, and what we think we can achieve is influenced by what we see others achieving.
Daniel Isenberg
#56. If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry
Thomas Cole
#57. We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.
Joan Didion
#58. I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.
Muhammad Yunus
#59. We do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.
Edgar Schein
#60. Normal ...
What the majority of people look, act, and talk and like.
So what if the majority became what we see as wierd now?
Would our normal, become our new wierd?
Catherine Of Genoa
#61. Life is whatever we make it. The traveller is the journey. What we see is not what we see but who we are. (76)
Fernando Pessoa
#62. We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.
Amber Valletta
#63. Okay, listen to me," the old man said, his voice muffled behind his own swath of fabric. "We need to set some things straight before we get up there. We can't let our emotions rule everything. No matter what we see, our number one priority has to be saving as many people as possible.
James Dashner
#64. We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!
Maya Angelou
#65. It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.
Nora Raleigh Baskin
#66. When we dare to doubt what we are told and take a fresh look at what's going on, we are in for lots of pleasant and fascinating and useful surprises. A new and more satisfying way of life begins to open up, just by noticing what we see.
Douglas Harding
#67. Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.
Zora Neale Hurston
#68. I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not merely to record what we see around us.
Arthur Tress
#69. When the dust settles and we look back,
will we be okay with what we see?"
End Times Alaska by Craig Martelle
Craig Martelle
#70. Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.
Clifford D. Simak
#71. what we see in the outer world is a pure reflection of the inner. We want to have love and peace, but the question is, "Are we willing to be love and peace?
Deborah L. Johnson
#72. The generation of choice has left us no choices. As our world turns and we devour ourselves. We stare into the eyes of our children, a brilliant reflection of our image. And, we blame them for what we see.
Sonja Cassandra Perdue
#73. Life it seems a struggle between what we think and what we see
Dave Matthews
#74. For sure, th' world is in a confusion that passes me or any other man to understand; it needs fettling, and who's to fettle it, if it's as yon folks say, and there's nought but what we see?
Elizabeth Gaskell
#76. The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we shrink back from it.
David Platt
#77. Sometimes what we see as a loss turns out in the end to be a gain, and sometimes a gain is a loss. I try not to be too swift to pass judgment on any situation, preferring instead to be patient and take the long view because I believe that in the end all things work together for good.
Louis Zamperini
#78. We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.
Marge Piercy
#79. What we see may deceive us - the skin may be deceptive - but there has to be one truth, right? It can't all just be a jumble of perceptions. So what really exists out there, beyond what we can see? We're so dependent on the surfaces of what we see. But if we could see past the skin of this world ...
Ted Dekker
#80. There's a truth that's deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception.
Gregory David Roberts
#81. We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
T.D. Jakes
#82. Cosmetic surgery is terrifying. It never looks good. Those women look weird. They look in the mirror and think they look great, but they don't see what we see. I think it's hideous. They scare small children.
Jerry Hall
#83. We think we know people. We think that what we see is all there is. We rarely ask ourselves what goes on behind the curtain. We jump to conclusions. And we take everything very personally.
Amanda Filipacchi
#84. Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see.
Elif Safak
#85. The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.
Albert Einstein
#86. At what point does reality imitate what we see in our dreams?
Joann Buchanan
#87. I think it's some kind of meeting of energies that causes what we see, and that part of those energies emanate from our lifeforces, our minds.
Walter Mosley
#88. We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We're more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true.
Mike Tyson
#89. To see is one of God's great gifts to man and to comprehend what we see is doubly so. Furthermore, He has endowed some people with the qualities to see the beauties of life and nature much more than others and they have the greatest gift of all.
Waite Phillips
#90. We're visual people. We trust, consume, and mentally store what we see.
Brene Brown
#91. Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's ... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place.
Jill Scott
#92. Henri Bergson thought the principal function of the brain was to filter out most of reality so that we could focus on the tasks of earthly life," he said. "When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.
William Peter Blatty
#93. What we see today then is not an emerging India but a re-emerging one. A nation slowly reclaiming its rightful place at the top of the world's economic pyramid.
Sidin Vadukut
#94. Sometimes it is better not to speak of what we see in our dreams. Sometimes our dreams belong only to us.
Terry Brooks
#95. It is not good to make everyday decision based upon what we see and what other people are saying or thinking
Sunday Adelaja
#96. There are views. And what we see in a view is not necessarily what is in the view, all that is in the view. We have to separate, to some extent, the perceiver from that which is perceived or we have to lose all distinction whatsoever.
Frederick Lenz
#97. Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy - sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others.
Ramez Naam
#98. The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place. What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experience.
David Eddings
#100. Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
Helen Keller
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