Sophie Swetchine Quotes

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

The mind is smaller than the eye.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

Our intelligence is always imperfect.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.

The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion.

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.

The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.

It gives me a sense of tunnel vision.

We do not see the lens through which we look.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.

It is pointless to believe what you see, if you only see what you believe.

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are based on previous judgments, which are usually based on someone else's foolish ideas. These false concepts and ideas are then stored in a highly selective memory system.

Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.

The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery drop of water, every grain of sand, which it is beyond the power of human understanding to fathom or comprehend. But it is evidentthat we are influenced by false principles to that degree as to mistrust our senses, and think we know nothing of those things which we perfectly comprehend.