Dean Koontz Quotes

How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?

It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.

The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!

Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

What you see is what you see.

Human beings understand too much.

We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.