David Bohm Quotes

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

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

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

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.

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

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

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

I often tend to think that things are not what they seem.

It would be a mistake to think something is wonderful just because it looks great.

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.

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

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

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

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

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.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

I am not what you see and hear.

You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.

But we're lost in a world of appearances now.

Oftentimes what you see cancels out what you perceive.

You think the shadow is the substance.