Vita Sackville-West Quotes

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

We hear things, but we can't always see them, or, even if we do see them, we're not sure that we're seeing correctly. Hence: Invisible.

Seeing is not always believing.

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

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

Never believe your eyes

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.

I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think.

Some guys-a lot of guys-don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to eat or drink or believe. Me, I don't believe in God. But if i saw him, I would. I wouldn't just go around saying, "Jesus, that was a great special effect." The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.

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

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

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.

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

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

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

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.