Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.

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

Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion.

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

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

You showed me everything was black cause my eyes were closed.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

Reality is an acquired taste.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

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

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.