Grace Paley Quotes

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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

Night hath a thousand eyes.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

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

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.

Insight essentially means being able to see things other people are not able to see. This is the hallmark of leadership.

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for what emerges from the background, without any name, without any particular interest: what was silent will speak, what is closed will open and will take on a voice.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.

You need your Inner Eye tested, if you ask me.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

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.

The best vision is insight.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.