Top 100 See Things As They Are Quotes
#1. Some men see things as they are, and say, why; I dream things as they never were, and say, why not.
George Bernard Shaw
#2. There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
Henry Ward Beecher
#3. most people do not see things as they are, they see things as they are!
Richard Rohr
#4. You don't want to see things as they are because your ego would have to admit that things outside yourself are necessary for the self to be. You still have fun, as most people do, from manipulating things.
Eli Siegel
#5. Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
John Lancaster Spalding
#6. My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.
Emile M. Cioran
#7. You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
Herb Cohen
#8. The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.
Woodrow Wilson
#9. Envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.
Margaret Of Valois
#10. Because of the power of neuroplasticity, you can, in fact, reframe your world and rewire your brain so that you are more objective. You have the power to see things as they are so that you can respond thoughtfully, deliberately, and effectively to everything you experience.
Elizabeth Thornton
#11. We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. Anais Nin
Debbie Hampton
#12. Uniqueness Leads To Great Success Some men see things as they are and say 'why?' I dream things that never were, and say, 'why not?' --George Bernard Shaw English Dramatist (1856-1950)
John Paul Carinci
#13. Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
Vernon Howard
#14. He's got to have the ability, and it seems to be fairly rare, to see things as they are and at the same time as they might have been. What we mean is the eye of an artist.
Jack Finney
#15. I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.
Seth Godin
#16. Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
Matthew Arnold
#17. The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
Berenice Abbott
#18. The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.
Robert Schumann
#19. Would it perturb you to see things as they are? To gaze at the world tranquilly and accept responsibility for your gaze, whatever it might see?
Jean Genet
#20. I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.
Elisabeth Rohm
#21. We cannot. . .begin any real inquiry into Truth, with any assumption or belief whatsoever. We must be willing to see things as they are, rather than as we hope, wish, or expect them to be.
Steve Hagen
#22. You will never see things as they are; you will only see things as you are.
Shannon L. Alder
#23. There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
Vera Brittain
#24. Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.
Rabindranath Tagore
#25. We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#27. When we can see things as they are, without projecting our mental models and fears, we are being objective. When we can understand and consider another person's point of view, we are being objective.
Elizabeth Thornton
#28. Give up grasping and see things as they are. THE SEVENTH DALAI LAMA
Lama Surya Das
#29. I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.
Henry David Thoreau
#30. After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
Oscar Wilde
#31. The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes ... Zen practice is to open up our small mind.
Shunryu Suzuki
#32. I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.
T. S. Eliot
#33. Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy and joy. They see the play of life.
Frederick Lenz
#34. 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
#35. You need to see things as they are, not worse than they are, than see them better than they are, and make them that way.
Jordan Belfort
#36. Seeing clearly means that you're smart enough to know when a project is doomed, or brave enough to persevere when your colleagues are fleeing for the hills. Abandoning your worldview in order to try on someone else's is the first step in being able to see things as they are.
Seth Godin
#38. This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.
Victoria Lincoln
#39. The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.
Shunryu Suzuki
#40. To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence.
Tobias Wolff
#41. A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. They inability or unwillingness to see things as they are promotes both gullibility and charlatanism.
Eric Hoffer
#42. Let us learn this lesson from Nehemiah: you never lighten the load unless first you have felt the pressure in your own soul. You are never used of God to bring blessing until God has opened your eyes and made you see things as they are.
Alan Redpath
#43. I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are.
Lillian Smith
#44. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
#46. I've always had a passion for tearing the bandages from other people's eyes. I've always insisted that those round me should see things as they are. I suppose it is that I need companionship in despair. I can't understand not despairing.
Francois Mauriac
#47. Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#48. When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.
William Blake
#49. Discernment is the ability to judge a situation accurately - to see the full reality of a situation, relationship, experience, or circumstance. It is the capacity to understand accurately and clearly what is, to see the truth of things as they are from God's viewpoint.
Charles F. Stanley
#50. Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
Augustine Of Hippo
#51. Obedience opens the door to the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. And the spiritual gifts and abilities activated by the power of the Holy Ghost enable us to avoid deception - and to see, to feel, to know, to understand, and to remember things as they really are.
David A. Bednar
#52. Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.
Warren Buffett
#53. I think it happens to everyone as they grow up," Jeremy responded. "You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. It's perfectly normal.
Nicholas Sparks
#54. You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV.
Harvey Pekar
#55. The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#56. Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.
Erica Jong
#57. If the clinician, as observer, wishes to see things as they really are, he must make a tabula rasa of his mind and proceed without any preconceived notions whatever.
Jean-Martin Charcot
#58. But it's not always as set as that. Some things, though, feel like they're right. You and me? It's one of those things. I don't know why they see or why things are such a mess, but in the middle of it all, I do know that being around you is one of tue best things that happened to me in, well, ever.
Melissa Marr
#59. I see things going on before my eyes and I photograph them as they are, without trying to change them. I don't warn people beforehand. That's why I'm a chronicler. I speak about us and I speak about myself.
Martin Parr
#60. It's ironic that people speak of artists as dreamers. I think they are the most grounded people around. Conscious and present. As an artist, you really see life, connect with its beauty, and create something that shares those observations with others. You notice things.
Danny Gregory
#61. Maya (deceit) means that one cannot see the nature of things as they are but sees them in a different form.
Dada Bhagwan
#62. In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.
Colin Gunton
#63. She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.
Lois Lowry
#64. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson
#65. And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.
Bob Schieffer
#67. Um, you know, they have every right to feel the way they do and things are great with me, as you see, I'm very, good shape now and on the ball. Things are happening.
Corey Haim
#68. There is no seer or anything seen / no speaker or anything spoken / the appearance of buddhas and also their teachings / are merely what we imagine 44. Those who view such things as real / they don't see the Buddha / nor do those who imagine nothing / only those who transform their existence.
Red Pine
#69. See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
Robert Collier
#70. You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.
Anthony De Mello
#71. A conscience free from guilt leads to tranquility of the mind, and only a tranquil mind can see things as they truly are.
Bohdi Sanders
#72. Critics at their best are independent voices; people take seriously their responsibility to see as many things as they can see, put them in the widest possible perspective, educate their readers. I really do think of myself as a teacher.
Terry Teachout
#73. Once we recognize the fact that every individual is a treasury of hidden and unsuspected qualities, our lives become richer, our judgment better, and our world is more right. It is not love that is blind, it is only the unnoticed eye that cannot see the real qualities of people.
Charles H. Percy
#74. I feel like from a very early age, we know who we are as individuals. I love when I see parents with their kids in these crazy outfits and they're like, "That's what they wanted to wear." Those small things are so important.
Tyler Blackburn
#75. It is a great blessing to have light in our lives - a light that helps us see things as they really are, light that illuminates our understanding, light we can follow with confidence and perfect trust.
Margaret D. Nadauld
#76. In order for things to change, you have to see them as you want them to be rather than continuing to observe them as they are.
Esther Hicks
#77. I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.
Charlotte Bronte
#78. There are things that science as presently conceived does not help us to understand, and which we can see, from the internal features of physical science, that it is not going to explain. They seem to call for a more uncompromisingly mentalistic or even normative form of understanding.
Thomas Nagel
#79. Names are what you can hear or see, but cannot smell or touch. I don't need a name, as name stand for things they are not, and I am what all names stand for. If you gave me a name, it would mean that we are separate, you and I, when we are not.
- The Blind Girl and the Talking Moon
Cyril Wong
#80. In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.
Ernest Hemingway,
#81. Paintings may serve a spiritual purpose for Catholics, but remember too that Protestants see God everywhere, in everything. By painting everyday things - tables and chairs, bowls and pitchers, soldiers and maids - are they not celebrating God's creation as well?" I
Tracy Chevalier
#82. [A]nd there are few things as threatening to us as individuals as a person who perceives our worst flaws, especially when those flaws are all they see.
Jobie Hughes
#83. Keep your distance, men. Don't be fooled into believing that our enemies are helpless. These 'girls', as they call themselves are a crafty bunch. I've see inside the thing they call a 'purse'. It is filled with all kinds of toxic sprays and pointy things they wouldn't hesitate unleashed on us
Michael Buckley
#84. And I'm sick of things the way they are, my many oddities, my limited depth perception, as if it's not bad enough I only see half the world, but it always seems to be the wrong half.
David Arnold
#85. Vin, Vin. Why can't you see? This isn't about good or evil. Morality doesn't even enter into it. Good men will kill as quickly for what they want as evil men - only the things they want are different.
Brandon Sanderson
#86. I've forgotten about these things all winter, but here they are again, and when I see them I remember them, I know them, I greet them as if they are home.
Margaret Atwood
#87. You should not be surprised at whatever you see or hear ... If you are ready to accept things as they are, you will receive them as old friends.
Shunryu Suzuki
#88. When you are calm, when you are still, you see things as they truly are. You don't distort things. When you are not calm, it's easy to get confused and angry. All of us make a lot of mistakes and create a lot of suffering when we are not calm.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#89. Things," Aunt Zelda reminded everyone on the bridge, "are not always as they seem. Remember, the moon always shows the truth How we see it, is up to us to us, not the moon
Angie Sage
#90. Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Swami Vivekananda
#91. One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be.
Denis Waitley
#92. You must not become a silly creature ... relying on other people to tell you what is valuable and what is not ... the most important thing in life is to be able to see things as they really are.
Marie Mutsuki Mockett
#93. Nothing like having a bucket of cold water flung over you to make you see things as they really are!
Enid Blyton
#94. The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.
Laozi
#95. The Princess Saralinda thought she saw, as people often think they see, on clear and windless days, the distant shining shores of Ever After. Your guess is quite as good as mine (there are a lot of things that shine) but I have always thought she did, and I will always think so.
James Thurber
#96. I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
Harriet Martineau
#97. When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they already know.
Paul Strisik
#98. We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.
Emma Watson
#99. People think I am dead because they haven't seen me around for awhile. I'm not dead, I'm very much alive, as you can see. Although, there are two things I do before I get up every morning. I look around and if I don't smell flowers or see candles flickering I go ahead and get up.
Red Skelton
#100. I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver. I'm asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
