Mary McCarthy Quotes

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

If you don't know about it, you can't get it.

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

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

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

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.

The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.

You don't know, but I'm noticing.

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.