Bill Johnson Quotes

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

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.

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

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

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

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

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-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.

People think that they see, but they don't.

What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

Seeing is not always believing.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

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

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

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

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

Everything you see is not always real.

Perception's not reality.

I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'

Things are not always as they seem.