Thomas Huxley Quotes

Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That's what I think good art does - it teaches you how to see the historical moment that you live in.

Subject is known by what she sees.

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

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

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

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

A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

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

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

Your frame of reference is what you see.

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.