Nicolas Roeg Quotes

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.

Men's wisdom increases with reference to what lies before them.

There's a million different ways you can look at a moment.

Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes it takes another situation to kind of make you look back at a different situation and really see how good you had it, you know?

While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds.

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.

Obvious to you is amazing to others.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.