Aaron Hill Quotes

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.

People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.

There can be an easy way to interpret things some times and it seems like maybe I'm on the wrong side of those interpretations a lot of those times.

Most people project onto you what they think you can do.

The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

Evil is that which one believes of others.

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

The world is as you are.

You can't see the world through a mirror.

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.