Ruth Hubbard Quotes

If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

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.

I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.

There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

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

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'

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.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

People want to see the world the way they want to see it, not the way it is.

If I just said, 'I'm a helicopter pilot and a federal prosecutor' they might think I've served my country, I'm experienced. If I say, 'And I'm a mom,' they think I get it. 'She's a working mom. That's tough.'

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

Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see.

Asking someone in advance not judge you, is like asking someone in advance not to smell you.

Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself.

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience.

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

You should know better.ʺ ʺIʹve never known better,ʺ he countered. ʺYou should know that.

In all aspects of life... we define our reality in terms of metaphors and then proceed to act on the basis of the metaphors. We draw inferences, set goals, make commitments, and execute plans, all on the basis of how we in part structure our experience, consciously and unconsciously, by means of metaphor.

You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be?