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“Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

“The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there. Books about birds show pictures of the peregrine, and the text is full of information. Large and isolated in the gleaming whiteness of the page, the hawk stares back at you, bold, statuesque, brightly coloured. But when you have shut the book, you will never see that bird again. Compared with the close and static image, the reality will seem dull and disappointing. The living bird will never be so large, so shiny-bright. It will be deep in landscape, and always sinking farther back, always at the point of being lost. Pictures are waxworks beside the passionate mobility of the living bird.”
― J.A. Baker, The Peregrine

“SENSES, APPEARANCE, ESSENCE and EXISTENCE
The world we see with our senses is very different than the world we see through our essence. Our senses perceive the world of appearance. Our essence perceives the deeper layers of existence. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is to have no goal other than to understand. "Understanding" has to be the ultimate goal. Only then, can we solve the problems.”
― Petek Kabakci

“Infrared satellite imagery, optical telescopes, and the Hubbell space telescope bring vastness within our visual sphere. Electron microscopes let us wander the remote universe of our own cells. But at the middle scale, that of the unaided eye, our senses seem to be strangely dulled. With sophisticated technology, we strive to see what is beyond us, but are often blind to the myriad sparkling facets that lie so close at hand. We thing we're seeing when we've only scratched the surface. Our acuity at this middle scale seems diminished, not by any failing of the eyes, but by the willingness of the mind. Has the power of our devices led us to distrust our unaided eyes? Or have we become dismissive of what takes no technology but only time and patience to perceive? Attentiveness alone can rival the most powerful magnifying lens.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

“Sometimes I take my glasses off to see differently from other people. Colours and words swim into each other, meanings change on the page. In the distance, everything becomes a pastel blur. There is a kind of restfulness in not seeing well that the clear-sighted will never know.”
― Anuradha Roy, All the Lives We Never Lived

“Unless we close our eyes we are always deceived.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, Pelleas And Melisande

“Love springs from awareness. It is only inasmuch as you see someone as he or she really is here and now, and not as they are in your memory or your desire or in your imagination or projection, that you can truly love them. Otherwise, it is not the person that you love but the idea that you have formed of this person, or this person as the object of your desire, not as he or she is in themselves.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello

“Above all, I wish to see.”
― Donna Goddard, Circles of Separation

“SENSES, APPEARANCE, ESSENCE and EXISTENCE
The world we see with our senses are very different than the world we see through our essence. Our senses perceive the world of appearance. Our essence perceive the deeper layers of existence. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is not to have any goal other than to understand. "Understanding" has to be the ultimate goal. Then, we can solve the problems.”
― Petek Kabakci

“The eye you see is not an eye because you see it;
it is an eye because it sees you.”
― Antonio Machado, Times Alone: Selected Poems

“Reading, seeing, and hearing happen way more often than understanding.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Seeing is easy. The hard part is being seen.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman

“When we see the world, the image we see is not only a reflection of the world, it is also a reflection of us.”
― Simone Weil, Simone Weil Oeuvres

“Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.”
― André Gide, La Symphonie pastorale

“Avoid fear because it will blind you from seeing God's purpose about your life and limit your potential.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“An illusion is just another way of seeing reality.”
― Joseph Rain, The Unfinished Book About Who We Are

“A blind man’s thoughts almost never have anything to do with the things he is facing.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Martin Buber tells this tale: “Rabbi Mendel once boasted to his teacher Rabbi Elimelekh that evenings he saw the angel who rolls away the light before the darkness, and mornings the angel who rolls away the darkness before the light. ‘Yes,�� said Rabbi Elimelekh, ‘in my youth I saw that too. Later on you don’t see these things any more.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“What should I do if I love two men?" a young woman asked her girlfriend helplessly at the next table. "Write a novel," said Elza, turning toward her. "Make it a story where there's little talk and a lot of sorrow.”
― Jana Beňová, Plán odprevádzania

“After all, that is what the merely casual onlooker always sees �� the outward appearance, the non-functional, the surfaces of things. No one who is really involved in the landscape ever sees the landscape.”
― George Orwell, A Collection of Essays

“Listening leads us more inside ourselves whereas seeing leads us more outside—the work of seeing itself, that is. And, therefore, we will be far more blessed with eternal life by the power of listening than by the power of sight. The act of listening allows me to hear the eternal Word spoken with me, whereas sight leads me astray, to what is outside myself. In listening, I suffer (or allow); in seeing, I work.”
― Meister Eckhart

“O God open our eyes to see the wonders of your holy word.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“What you see is highly dependent on how you look.”
― TemitOpe Ibrahim

“We keep seeing certain things all our life, yet seldom do we notice them!”
― Avijeet Das

“But because no one was praising their actions, no one giving them any reward, he says, 'ye labour in the sight of God.' -- Chrysostom, on 1 Thess.1”
― Chrysostom, The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, on the Statues, or to the People of Antioch

“Am I seeing this right? Are you out of bed before I am?��

“Clearly, I’ve got our bed strapped to my back.”
― idratherhaveyou, Kings Reign

“When the heart is asleep the eyes only looks but seeing awakens the heart”
― Oluwatobi Eccles

“إذا كنت تستطيع سماع أفكاره! ... لماذا لا تستطيع حل مشكلتك ومشاكله !! #the_widsom ... هشام نيبر
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If you can hear his ideas! ... why you can't fix your problem and his problems!! #the_widsom ... Hesham Nebr”
― Hesham Nebr

“Taco Hidde Bakker: (quoting a sentence from Schles' book "Oculus") Further on you write, decidedly, “Seeing is not knowing. Recognition is not knowledge��. […] Muses are the origin of knowledge. Almost everything one knows and is able to know nowadays, comes from hearsay, isn’t based on one’s own experiences or witnessing of events. Most of us don’t even directly witness historically decisive events (or what have come to be portrayed as such by the media) during our lifetimes. By means of the mechanisms of complex (visual) representation networks, we are second-order or even third-order witnesses. If we were to consider photography sui generis, then it is a Muse. It is virtually omnipresent, it sees everything, transmits visual evidence to people all over the globe, and enlargers their body of knowledge.”
― Taco Hidde Bakker, The Photograph That Took the Place of a Mountain

“Well, not everyone believes these things exist. The things we see are not common; they should not be common knowledge. It is like the story of Santa Claus. You and I know he does not exist -- that he is a metaphor. You know this because you are a special child; you sought to discover the truth yourself. But all of the other children do not know that yet. And we've discussed that you should not tell them the truth because it is not their time to hear it. It would make them very sad without good reason. Just so, it is better for us that we do not tell people about these extra things we see."

"When will they figure it out? When can I talk about it?"

"Some of them will never know." Pappou paused. "They must never know. Because they will think we are different, and people sometimes do bad things to people whom they consider to be different."

Lexi's legs stopped swinging. "Why?"

"Why, indeed." The old man sat for a moment, his elbows propped on his knees and his chin resting on his fist. "Perhaps to make us appreciate the nicer people all the more.”
― Angela Panayotopulos, The Wake Up