Gary Zukav Quotes

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

Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the Academy). All that is, seems, and is visible to us because we perceive it by the reflected light of semblance. Nothing else is visible.

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

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

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Seeing is not always believing.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

Not seeing is half-believing.

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

But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn’t need the Mist to warp their perceptions.

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

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

Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.

Color deceives continuously.

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

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

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.