Edmund Spenser Quotes

Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

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

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.

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

The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.

Failing to see the point is not a virtue.

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.

The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.

Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth.

In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

When one of us says 'look, there is nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see'.

Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.

The dice cannot read their own spots.

When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.

How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all.

We usually don't look. We overlook.