Henry Adams Quotes

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Two eyes see more than one.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see.

It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.

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

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.

I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Man can no more think without words than see without light.

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

What a man sees depends on what he looks at and what his previous experience has taught him to see.

History and philosophy are the two eyes of wisdom. If one of them is missing, then one only has half vision.