Aravind Adiga Quotes

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.

The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Sometimes the very thing you're looking for is the one thing you cannot see.

It's amazing what you don't see, though. Even when it's right in front of your eyes.

The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.

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

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

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

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

When we lack the will to see things as they really are, there is nothing so mystifying as the obvious.

People tell you who they are. There are big neon signs going off. 'Pay attention! This is who I am.' And most of us put out hands a little bit over our eyes. We don't see that.

Sometimes circumstance blinds us at first from seeing people for who they really are.

Sometimes you don't realise what you've got, because it's right in front of you.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.

One of the greatest enemies to vision is sight!

There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want of light, but for want of eyes.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes.

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.

We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.