Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Everything I see is something I haven't memorized.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

People tell you who they are. There are big neon signs going off. 'Pay attention! This is who I am.' And most of us put out hands a little bit over our eyes. We don't see that.

When you have watched someone long enough, you know what they can do.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.

You cannot be known Better than I know you.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.

What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

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

There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.

We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.

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.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.