Lao Tzu Quotes

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

You must learn to see, what you are looking at

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

The more you look, the more you see.

You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

Art is about paying attention.

You see, but you do not observe.

In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.

It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.

Observe what is with undivided awareness.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

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

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

We must look a long time before we can see.

The best thing anybody ever told me about acting - and I think it's probably true for life, generally - is listen. You've really got to watch, and you've really got to listen. Not see and hear.