Top 100 See Not Quotes
#2. Don't fill your bowl With food from every boiling pot you see. Not every joke is humorous, So don't search for meaning Where there isn't one.
Rumi
#3. Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
Thomas Merton
#4. Eh bien! I no see not that that frog has nothing of better than another.
Mark Twain
#5. I think we'll see, not only with Glass, but the watch wearables, with the contact lens, that each of these things have their own best purpose, but it will take more on our part and society's part to figure out what that is.
Astro Teller
#6. Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object enveloped in sunlight and atmosphere, with the blue dome of Heaven reflected in the shadows.
Claude Monet
#7. Not wanting to see, not wanting to be in touch with one's experience is something akin to cognitive laziness, an eclipse of the experiencer or inner witnessing in the person.
Claudio Naranjo
#8. See not the face..
but only the eyes,
of the poker face.
Toba Beta
#9. I'm a vegetarian, you see, not because I love animals, but because I hate plants.
David David Katzman
#10. Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Charles Spurgeon
#11. I began to see, in the place of emptiness, presence. I began to see not only the visible landscape but the invisible one, a landscape in which history, unrecorded and unremembered as it is, had transmuted itself into an always present spiritual dimension.
Sharon Butala
#12. Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#13. What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#14. In consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#15. Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#16. I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.
Colin Powell
#17. We sleepwalkers of the day! We artists! We who conceal naturalness! We who are moon- and God-struck! We untiring wanderers, silent as death, on heights that we see not as heights but as our plains, as our safety.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. Normally it makes me really happy to see, not just that they're in love but that love like that is possible. Right now, though, I just kind of want to throw water on them.
Amy Spalding
#19. Later I read that there are things inside us too tiny to see. Not even a microscope can capture them. This got me thinking
if there are things inside us too tiny to see, might there be things outside us too big to believe?
Rene Denfeld
#20. Over and over in the butterfly we see the idea of transcendence. In the forest we see not the inert but the aspiring. In water that departs forever and forever returns, we experience eternity.
Mary Oliver
#21. Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.
Boyd K. Packer
#22. From my village I see as much of the universe as you can see from earth, So my village is as big as any other land For I am the size of what I see, Not the size of my height. - Fernando Pessoa as Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
Rabih Alameddine
#23. As more Americans meet Mitt Romney, I think they'll see beyond the handsome exterior and see not just a good salesman, but a thoughtful (and, yes, conservative) leader.
Kathryn Jean Lopez
#24. Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't
waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.
Paul Auster
#25. Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.
Dan Simmons
#26. Luc would have put my head on a pike if you'd taken a hit." "How do you know I didn't?" I opened my mouth, then closed it again. "Did you?" His eyes went to sultry slits. "Do you want to look and see?" "Not especially." Liar, liar, pants on fire.
Chloe Neill
#27. We see not just that which is uninjured, but that within us which is uninjurable.
Stephen Levine
#28. For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.
Fernando Pessoa
#29. The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault, aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful
wise in spying that which I see not; faithful in a plain admonishment, not tainted with flattery.
Owen Feltham
#31. Men are in the habit, when the truth is exhibited by the servants of God, of saying, All is mystery; they have spoken in parables, and, therefore, are not to be understood. It is true they have eyes to see, and see not, but none are so blind as those who will not see.
Sam Smith
#32. While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out, that they see not what is their birthright.
Gerrard Winstanley
#33. The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see ... not, I'm going to hear.
Branford Marsalis
#34. The disciple is not hankering for knowledge; he wants to see, not to know. He wants to be. He is no longer interested in having more knowledge; he wants to have more being.
Rajneesh
#35. When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.
Thomas Paine
#36. I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.
Thomas Paine
#37. I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.
John Dyer
#39. We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change.
Neal Barnard
#41. If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.
Frederick Buechner
#42. Everything sings, the whole universe and all the other universes. It's in our genes, see, not just in our ears.
Bryan Islip
#43. I'd like to look below my eyes and see not language staring back at me, not sentences or single words or awkward pen lines, but a surface clear and burnished as glass.
William H Gass
#44. I have been praying, too, for the first time in my life. That parson, Tugwell, he helped me see - not the error of my ways, for I knew them all to well already - but what was wanting in me. I am far from perfect, I know, but I am changed and changing still
Julie Klassen
#45. If you love her, then love the woman you see, not the woman you suppose, presume, assume, and surmise that she might have been.
Ilya Atani
#46. The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.
Huangbo Xiyun
#47. With the wild nature as ally and teacher we see not through two eyes but through the many eyes of intuition. With intuition we are like the starry night, we gaze at the world through a thousand eyes. The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#48. The problem is to see not what is desirable, or nice, or politically feasible, but what is necessary.
T.R. Fehrenbach
#49. Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#50. The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that's old people's hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that's what you've got, and then think about what you want to see. Not anyone else.
David LaChapelle
#51. A-ha, but don't you see, not caring about the money, only caring about winning, that's a luxury. You come from money, so you have the luxury of only caring about your accomplishments.
L. H. Cosway
#52. People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there
Zoe Marriott
#53. The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.
Vandana Shiva
#54. How can you say you're not in love with Hell?"
"Because I'm not in love with Hell." See? Not hard to say at all. It's true isn't it?
"Delusional much?
Jet Mykles
#55. Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
[Lat., Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris;
Ne videris quod videris.]
Plautus
#56. My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.
J. M. W. Turner
#57. Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#58. I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#59. And yet, though we wake, though there is no end to waking and saying Oh I see, not ever [ ... ], still within the dream in which we find ourselves every other dream is nested, every one we have awakened from.
John Crowley
#61. When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.
John Lennon
#62. What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?
Justina Chen
#63. It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
A. C. Benson
#64. When you see, not only intellectually but with your heart too, how we are all connected, how can you harm another? It's the same as harming oneself.
Narissa Doumani
#65. Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.
Ayn Rand
#66. Spiritual seekers let their light shine so that others may see; not only to give service by example, but also to constantly remind themselves that spirituality is most gloriously embodied in our actions, our habits of being.
Bell Hooks
#67. I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.
Marc Jacobs
#68. Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.
Pat Conroy
#69. My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirr'd; And I myself see not the bottom of it.
William Shakespeare
#71. The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.
Publilius Syrus
#72. That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
Plautus
#73. But I was a dreamer, you see, not a weakling.
Mary Balogh
#74. See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest.
Mary Summer Rain
#75. I, it's just, listen, criticism? It's the most important art now, it's the one we need most now. Criticism is the art we need most today. But not, don't you see? not the "if I'd done it myself . . ." Yes, a, a disciplined nostalgia, disciplined recognitions
William Gaddis
#76. See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see
L. Ron Hubbard
#77. Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but the world.
Sarah Dessen
#78. Here and there among men, there are those who pause in the hurried rush to listen to the call of a life that is more real ... He who sees and hears too much is cursed for a dreamer, a fanatic, or a fool, by the mad mob who, having eyes, see not, ears and hear not, and refuse to understand ...
Harold Bell Wright
#79. I fought in many guises, Many names, but always me. And I see not in my blindness What the objects were I wrought, But as God rules o'er our bickerings It was through His will I fought. So forever in the future, Shall I battle as of yore, Dying to be born a ... fighter, But to die again, once more.
George S. Patton Jr.
#80. When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.
Timothy Keller
#81. I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we're told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone.
Gloria Steinem
#82. You see we do, yet see you but our hands
And this the bleeding business they have done:
Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful
William Shakespeare
#83. When we will learn to see, not you and me, but only we, then there will be peace in this world.
Debasish Mridha
#84. The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.
Terry Gilliam
#85. Act, not for the results, but for the action.
Lead, not for the mission, but for the vision.
See, not through your beliefs, but through the eyes.
Trust, not because of your beliefs, but because of truth.
Think before you do and do because it is right.
Debasish Mridha
#86. Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon ... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
Dorothea Lange
#87. Across the road, tadpoles are dancing on the quarter thumbnail of the moon. They cant see, not yet.
James Wright
#88. Friend, God wants you to see not just the path ahead, but the profound spiritual realities that are affecting your life. He is ready to help you! So when you sense the dark fears encroaching, run to Him. Because when He is your light, you will have nothing to dread.
Charles F. Stanley
#89. For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.
Isaac Newton
#90. Write in pictures. With your words, let the reader see not letters, but images. Be specific about every detail, but don't describe it
make it happen on the page, if you were writing fiction, or make it happen over again, if you were writing about history or some recent event.
A.A. Patawaran
#92. Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.
Vincent Bugliosi
#93. Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons as more in their security interest than not.
Robert M. Gates
#94. I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.
Mary Gardiner Brainard
#95. We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.
William Blake
#96. True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#97. I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.
Beth Ditto
#98. Is, then, the crown too heavy that I wear? This Iron Crown of Lombardy. Yet it is bright with many a gem; I, the wearer, see not its far flashings; but darkly feel that I wear that, that dazzling confounds. 'Tis Iron - that I know - not gold.
Herman Melville
#99. The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of and commitment to what you see, not to what you rationally understand, that balances the otherwise absurd investment of labor.
Robert Adams
#100. Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
