Paul Hawken Quotes

We see only what we know.

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

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

I think perception is important.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

Few ever see what is not already inside their heads.

A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!

You don't know, but I'm noticing.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

How you mean? How you mean? What you know about the team? You just know what you get told girl I see behind the scene

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

Observing and understanding are two different things.

You see what you expect to see, Severus.

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

The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.