Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

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

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

People never notice anything.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

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

The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.

It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and niggling, and that the large things one overlooks often cause problems.

The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

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

It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

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

… looking and not seeing things was a great sin.

I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

Familiarity can blind too.

We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.

I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.

Often miracles are happening right in front of our eyes, but we think they should look different, so we miss them though they're right there.

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

Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.

His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.