Thomas Wolfe Quotes

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

The more you look, the more you see.

I think my thing is that I try and pick up on things that other people have maybe not picked up on.

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”

You see, but you do not observe.

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

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

No matter how prosaic something is that you've done and been a part of again and again, there is so much more there that you haven't seen.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

They say eyes clear with age.

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

What a man sees depends on what he looks at and what his previous experience has taught him to see.

Attention to detail - Sherlock certainly has that, and my memory is pretty good - but not as good as his.

When you have watched someone long enough, you know what they can do.

Once I started to look i finally began to see.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.