Richard K. Morgan Quotes

People never notice anything.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

People just see what they want to see.

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

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

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

How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.

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

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.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

It's kind of like when you have guests coming over to your house, and you haven't really picked up in awhile, and you look around and say, 'Wow, my place is kind of a mess, but I never noticed it because it's what I've been living in every day.' That's kind of what Supergirl is to the Red Lanterns.

People take reality for granted.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.