Paulo Coelho Quotes

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

My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

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

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.

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

It's amazing what you don't see, though. Even when it's right in front of your eyes.

There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.

The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

People never notice anything.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.

Experience is the cane of the blind.

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

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

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

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.