Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

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.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

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

The eye sees more than the heart knows.

How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

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

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.

People never notice anything.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

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

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

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.

When you have watched someone long enough, you know what they can do.

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