John Berger Quotes

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

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

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.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty.

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

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.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.

See into life, don't just look at it.

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.

I have a great deal of joy in my life, and I'm very fortunate. That combination makes you aware of just how wonderful life can be on the one hand and how dreadful it can be for people on the other. You can't be happy in isolation.

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

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

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