Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

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

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

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

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

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.

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

You think the shadow is the substance.

I think that, like anything, people take their image and what they want somebody else to be and then people just run with it. And when you really know the person and really love the person, you recognize that that person is nothing like that.

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

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Reality is an acquired taste.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

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

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

Things are not always as they seem.

Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.

They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

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

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

Generally, a lot of the things people think are made up are real, a lot of the things people think are real are made up, a lot of the things people think are spontaneous are cleverly faked, and a lot of the things people think are fake are spontaneous.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

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 you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

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.