Top 37 What The Mind Sees Quotes
#1. ALIF: Painting brings to life what the mind sees, as a feast for the eyes.
LAM: What the eye sees in the world enters the painting to the degree that it serves the mind.
MIM: Consequently, beauty is the eye discovering in our own world what the mind already knows.
Orhan Pamuk
#2. Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.
Joyce Carol Oates
#3. My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in the people that misinterpret them. You know what you do, but someone else sees it, and they want to talk about it or write about it, and so they misinterpret them.
Woody Allen
#4. Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.
Robert Breault
#5. What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind belives.
Harry Houdini
#6. Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is disturbed by the mercurial changes of the stock exchange. It places him under an influence akin to intoxication. What is not, he sees, and what he sees, is not.
Andrew Carnegie
#7. A man sees only what concerns him ... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!
Henry David Thoreau
#8. BUILD UP YOUR CIRCLE ... A mind that perceives What can rationally be. A spirit that sees Innovative possibility. A heart that is open to Both beginnings and ends. A firm hand that fits readily To the reach of a friend.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#9. The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.
Anthony De Mello
#10. Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do
Charles Fillmore
#11. What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination.
Stephen Helmes
#12. First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
#13. The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal censor, to the place where you are writing what you mind actually sees and feels, not what it thinks it should see or feel.
Natalie Goldberg
#14. I saw a sign on the side of the road in Tennessee once that said 'dirt for sale' ... what a great country we live in. DIRT for sale. How would you like to get inside that guys mind and look around for a hour? That guy sees opportunity at every glance, doesn't he?
Bill Hicks
#15. Mankind has invented the mirror in vain, for there's nobody in this world who looks into the mirror and sees himself as he truly is; each person has his own mirror hidden in his own mind and he can't see more than what that mirror in his mind reflects!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. What will it do to Jimmy's state of mind if he opens his eyes and sees three of his former beloveds bending over him like the three Fates? Demanding his everlasting love, his apologies, his blood in a cat food saucer?
Margaret Atwood
#17. What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.
Criss Jami
#18. The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.
Edvard Munch
#20. The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Robertson Davies
#21. The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.
Cinda Williams Chima
#22. Her mind interprets the world differently. She feels and sees things with a unique perspective. This is what makes her so magnificent.
Tina J. Richardson
#24. The mind sees, the will commands, the man acts. What is it then to act? To act is to produce something. If you have produced nothing
if no result has been the fruit of your will, you have done nothing.
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
#25. The eyes can see nothing; the mind can see everything that the brain is ready to see.
Debasish Mridha
#27. Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.
Jim Backus
#28. If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.
Twyla Tharp
#29. The mind believes what it sees and does what it believes; that is the
secret of fascination. And in his book, St Augustine does not doubt the
reality of this fascination for one moment.
Antonin Artaud
#30. He has neither what I call the outward vision (seeing details all around you what is called an observant person) nor the inner vision
concentration, the focusing of the mind on one object. He has a purposefully limited vision. He sees only what blends and harmonises with the bent of his mind.
Agatha Christie
#31. God gave us a heart because it often sees what the eyes cannot see and the mind cannot understand.
Tonny K. Brown
#32. Cleverness, as usual, takes all the credit it possibly can. But it's not the clever mind that's responsible when things work out. It's the mind that sees what's in front of it, and follows the nature of things.
Benjamin Hoff
#33. Original details are very ordinary, except to the mind that sees extraordinariness. it's not that we need to go to the Hopi mesas to see greatness; we need to view what we already have in a different way.
Natalie Goldberg
#34. We see things based on autopilot. Our mind identifies something in a certain way, no matter what the eye sees. The eye tells you one thing and the brain tells you another.
Jerry Andrus
#35. It is extraordinary how the human mind sees what it anticipates and is blind to anything that could not be dreamed of.
Tracy Rees
#36. The Savior answered, 'Man does not see through
the soul, nor through the spirit, but the mind which
is between the two - that is (what) sees a vision...
Various
#37. And if you had the right sort of mind, the sort of mind that actually sees what it looks at, you might notice that his eyes were odd. If your mind had the rare talent of not being fooled by its own expectations, you might notice something else about them, something strange and wonderful.
Patrick Rothfuss
