Steven Soderbergh Quotes

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

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

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

You can not hear what you do not understand.

You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

You cannot be known Better than I know you.

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

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

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

To see is to think, and to think is to see.

Subject is known by what she sees.

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.