Beah Richards Quotes

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

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

We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmith.

He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.

There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

The thinking of the world leads us to think shallowly and act too quickly.

Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become satisfied merely with seeing what is said, without going any further. Review and attention, and even forming a judgment, becomes fatigue; and to lay anything before them that requires it, is putting them quite out of their way.

People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.

I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.

I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.

I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.

For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

Sometimes people in search of a better fishing hole can't see the body of water in front of them.

I used to be a conservative and I watch these debates and I'm wondering, I don't think I've changed, but it's a little troubling sometimes when people are appealing to people's fears and emotion rather than trying to get them to look over the horizon for a broader perspective and that's kind of where we are.

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

That's the trouble with, I think, my - the contemporary read of my work. So many people just simply say, "These are pretty pictures of black boys." They're not really thinking about, like, what the whole thing is.