Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.

People think that they see, but they don't.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

I think perception is important.

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

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

It's crazy what you see if you aren't really looking.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see.

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

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

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

We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

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

Look with all your eyes, look.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

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

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