Clive Barker Quotes

Seeing is not always believing.

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

I often tend to think that things are not what they seem.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life?

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

Everything you see is not always real.

Not seeing is half-believing.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.

What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

You can't go by what things look like on paper.

As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.