Isaac Asimov Quotes

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

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

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

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.

Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

I'm the kind of person where I always digest everything around me.

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

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

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

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

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

It's crazy what you see if you aren't really looking.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

The writer is a person who is standing apart, like the cheese in 'The Farmer in the Dell' standing there alone but deciding to take a few notes. You’re outside, but you can see things up close through your binoculars. Your job is to present clearly your viewpoint, your line of vision. Your job is to see people as they really are, and to do this, you have to know who you are in the most compassionate possible sense. Then you can recognize others.

If y'can't see with yore own two eyes what's in front of them, then y'better off closin' 'em an' goin' t'sleep, 'tis far more restful! —Gerul

It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.

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

If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.

I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!

(As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.